Richard Blair, MD
Nephrology · Greenville, NCNPI 1386646628
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 187 payments — averaging $70.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$8K
- Medtronic$1K
- Amgen$629
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$555
- Nxstage Medical, Inc.$392
- GSK$388
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2702%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2392%
- Travel & lodging$9437%
- Food & beverage$3,49226%
- Education$1231%
- Other$8,19462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $8,194 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $1,113 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 32 | $629 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 32 | $555 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 5 | $392 |
| GSK | 11 | $388 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $320 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 14 | $250 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 8 | $199 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 9 | $138 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 7 | $127 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 7 | $98 |
| Bayer | 5 | $87 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $83 |
| Novartis | 3 | $69 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $53 |
| Merck | 3 | $42 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| BD | 1 | $39 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $36 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $33 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 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
$13,262 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 366 nephrology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 56 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Greenville
- Nauman ShahidGreenville$2M
- Cynthia ChristianoGreenville$494K
- Reginald ObiGreenville$328K
- Paul BolinGreenville$227K
- William KendrickGreenville$125K
- Daniel EdmonstonDurham$9.9M
- Gregory GreenwoodWinston-Salem$4.1M
- Barry FreedmanWinston Salem$3.5M
- Manuel MonteroNew Bern$2.5M
- Rekha JohnKinston$2.3M
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.