Robert Starkenburg
Internal Medicine · Raleigh, NCNPI 1609878776
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $14.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$343
- Amgen$287
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$187
- Novartis$155
- Lilly USA, LLC$138
- Boehringer Ingelheim$134
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$171%
- Food & beverage$2,78799%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 23 | $343 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 16 | $287 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $187 |
| Novartis | 11 | $155 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $138 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $134 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $130 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $120 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $119 |
| GSK | 8 | $111 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $95 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $90 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Merck | 6 | $72 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $52 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $47 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 3 | $40 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $22 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $19 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Repatha$100
How this compares
$2,813 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Raleigh
- John RubinoRaleigh$13M
- Wayne HarperRaleigh$6.7M
- Bhakti PaulRaleigh$536K
- Clifford CurtisRaleigh$376K
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- Adam DevoreDurham$11.8M
- Krishnakumar UdayakumarDurham$11M
- Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.