Rita Osei-Obeng
Internal Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1245947746
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 140 payments — averaging $21.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$734
- AbbVie$628
- Novo Nordisk$336
- Lilly USA, LLC$206
- Boehringer Ingelheim$163
- Pfizer$148
- plus $771 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,987100%
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 | 25 | $734 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $628 |
| Novo Nordisk | 21 | $336 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $206 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $163 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $148 |
| Bayer | 7 | $133 |
| Amgen | 7 | $119 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $56 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $27 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $26 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Charlotte
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- Lyndsay MolinariCharlotte$2.4M
- Claud GriggCharlotte$1.5M
- Maher AghaCharlotte$1M
- Jonathan SchwartzCharlotte$824K
- Marc JohnsonCharlotte$823K
- Santosh GopalakrishnanCharlotte$598K
- Maithili ChitnavisCharlotte$536K
- Christopher FerreriCharlotte$434K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.