Runa Shrestha, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Charlotte, NCNPI 1649525866
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 244 payments — averaging $16.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$607
- Merck$440
- Gilead$351
- Johnson & Johnson$285
- Novartis$256
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$225
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,66290%
- Education$38610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 41 | $607 |
| Merck | 30 | $440 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 17 | $351 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $285 |
| Novartis | 17 | $256 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 19 | $225 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 8 | $188 |
| Amgen | 10 | $169 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 8 | $146 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 9 | $142 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 8 | $130 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $113 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $97 |
| Seagen Inc. | 6 | $96 |
| GSK | 5 | $74 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 4 | $74 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $64 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $37 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Bayer | 2 | $31 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $12 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $6 |
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
$4,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 358 hematology & oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| InlytaAxitinib | 14 | $279,645 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 13 | $220,766 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 26 | $88,070 |
| EliquisApixaban | 36 | $28,210 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 30 | $22,737 |
| Anastrozole | 203 | $3,821 |
| Letrozole | 69 | $1,840 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 51 | $1,523 |
| Hydroxyurea | 21 | $695 |
| Megestrol Acetate | 12 | $669 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 25 | $462 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $365 |
| Allopurinol | 24 | $190 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 11 | $139 |
| Omeprazole | 13 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerInlyta, Eliquis | $607 | $307,85550 claims |
| AstraZenecaTagrisso | $142 | $220,76613 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $285 | $22,73730 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 358 hematology & oncology providers in North Carolina.
Other hematology & oncology in Charlotte
- Shelbi AtrashCharlotte$9.5M
- Justin FavaroCharlotte$955K
- Kimberly GreenCharlotte$927K
- Joseph MerrimanCharlotte$663K
- Jennifer AtlasCharlotte$655K
- John PowderlyHuntersville$21.2M
- Kimberly BlackwellDurham$13.2M
- Joshua ZeidnerChapel Hill$11.2M
- Matthew WieduwiltWinston Salem$9.5M
- Danielle BranderDurham$8.6M
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.