RxDoctor Payments Data

Sara Bluestein, MD

Allergy & Immunology · Charlotte, NCNPI 1669834784

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,211in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 229 payments — averaging $27.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi$2K
  • GSK$915
  • AstraZeneca$815
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$357
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$331
  • CSL Behring$300
  • plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$70011%
  • Food & beverage$5,37186%
  • Education$1402%

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

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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.

How this compares

$6,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 140 allergy & immunology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$171,359
Medicare patients
127
Services billed
7,179

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
TezspireTezepelumab-Ekko14$58,944
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter50$32,332
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol24$13,718
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol18$8,833
XhanceFluticasone Propionate11$6,908
Epinephrine28$6,501
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate19$4,463
Azelastine Hcl63$1,560
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate61$1,329
Montelukast Sodium77$1,023
Ipratropium Bromide32$765
Fluticasone Propionate31$536
Triamcinolone Acetonide12$206
Cromolyn Sodium12$149
Famotidine17$127

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AstraZenecaTezspire, Symbicort$815$63,40733 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$915$46,05174 claims
Optinose US, Inc.Xhance$99$6,90811 claims
Cycle Pharmaceuticals IncCromolyn Sodium$37$14912 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 50th percentile of 140 allergy & immunology providers in North Carolina.

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