Rhonda Bitting
Medical Oncology · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1245361245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Veracyte, Inc.. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $1,025.
Across 1 payment — averaging $0.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Veracyte, Inc.$0
Across 30 payments — averaging $34,203 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$935K
- Pfizer$37K
- Clovis Oncology, Inc.$26K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$21K
- Bayer$4K
- Principia Biopharma Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$0100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veracyte, Inc. | 1 | $0 |
How this compares
$0 in reported general payments places this provider in the 0th percentile of 170 medical oncology providers in North Carolina.
Other medical oncology in Winston Salem
- Steven SorscherWinston Salem$196K
- Andrew DothardWinston Salem$75K
- Glenn LesserWinston Salem$45K
- Garrett SherwoodWinston Salem$25K
- Timothy CollinsWinston Salem$19K
- Bayard PowellWinston Salem$19K
- Kavya KannanWinston Salem$8K
- Thomas LeblancDurham$1.7M
- David RizzieriCharlotte$714K
- Raghava InduruAlbemarle$625K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.