Rita Kaplon, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Asheville, NCNPI 1538547385
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $168.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$274
- AbbVie$246
- Biogen$134
- Pfizer$100
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$95
- plus $428 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,59525%
- Food & beverage$1,48410%
- Education$9,10064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $12,902 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $274 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $246 |
| Biogen | 7 | $134 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $100 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $95 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Bayer | 3 | $52 |
| Astellas Pharma Global Development | 2 | $48 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $42 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Organon | 2 | $25 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $23 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $15 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $8 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$9,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,763
How this compares
$14,179 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,344 obstetrics & gynecology providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 19 | $970 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Asheville
- Eric HawesAsheville$391K
- Karie LafleurAsheville$135K
- Cameron HarknessAsheville$73K
- Breanna BolivarAsheville$45K
- Stacy TravisAsheville$27K
- Laura McKainWilmington$2.6M
- Robert ParkerWinston-Salem$2.1M
- Allison PuechlCharlotte$1.6M
- Jeffrey MichelsonNew Bern$1.2M
- Robert LittletonRaleigh$976K
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.