Rakesh Alva, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Greensboro, NCNPI 1093868929
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 456 payments — averaging $19.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- GSK$2K
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$410
- Sanofi$403
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$352
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,14613%
- Food & beverage$7,72586%
- Education$1572%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 100 | $1,787 |
| GSK | 107 | $1,668 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 10 | $1,274 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 25 | $410 |
| Sanofi | 17 | $403 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 22 | $352 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 22 | $333 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $326 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 15 | $257 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 7 | $228 |
| Novartis | 14 | $210 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 12 | $209 |
| Merck | 14 | $194 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $151 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $124 |
| Amgen | 4 | $119 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 5 | $117 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $86 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 8 | $78 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $76 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $59 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $49 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
| Bayer | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$9,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 393 pulmonary disease providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 424 | $339,408 |
| Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil | 13 | $299,690 |
| ZemairaAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor | 13 | $116,471 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 109 | $84,824 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 22 | $82,764 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 102 | $53,590 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 60 | $34,396 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 84 | $21,932 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 17 | $17,957 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 42 | $14,041 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 17 | $11,470 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 17 | $10,798 |
| Pirfenidone | 13 | $9,221 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 20 | $9,096 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 311 | $7,413 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $1,668 | $446,026645 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $1,787 | $106,756193 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimStiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat | $410 | $22,26834 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $32 | $17,95717 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $16 | $5,14611 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 393 pulmonary disease providers in North Carolina.
Other pulmonary disease in Greensboro
- Murali RamaswamyGreensboro$2M
- Michael WertGreensboro$412K
- Selwyn SpangenthalCharlotte$7M
- Thomas SternHuntersville$5.2M
- Laurie SnyderDurham$3.8M
- Scott PalmerDurham$3.8M
- Michael PritchettPinehurst$2.2M
- Anup BanerjeeGastonia$2.1M
- Hubert FordChapel Hill$2M
- Mikell JarrattGastonia$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.