Sara James, MD
Dermatology · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1417303488
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 258 payments — averaging $23.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Sanofi$405
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$373
- Novartis$348
- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$341
- UCB, Inc.$338
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1903%
- Food & beverage$5,63995%
- Education$1162%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 78 | $1,590 |
| Sanofi | 14 | $405 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 10 | $373 |
| Novartis | 21 | $348 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $341 |
| UCB, Inc. | 8 | $338 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $322 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 14 | $294 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 12 | $290 |
| Abbott | 5 | $261 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $257 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $185 |
| Amgen | 5 | $145 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 7 | $138 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 5 | $80 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $65 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 3 | $47 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $25 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $20 |
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
$5,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 475 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 21 | $75,780 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 105 | $4,198 |
| Tacrolimus | 26 | $3,676 |
| Fluorouracil | 45 | $3,214 |
| Metronidazole | 56 | $2,828 |
| Tretinoin | 38 | $2,351 |
| Ketoconazole | 123 | $1,710 |
| Fluocinonide | 32 | $1,210 |
| Halobetasol Propionate | 11 | $1,032 |
| Azelaic Acid | 11 | $989 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $894 |
| Ciclopirox | 35 | $875 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 117 | $696 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 25 | $614 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 12 | $496 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Chapel Hill
- Christopher SayedChapel Hill$3.3M
- Aida Lugo-SomolinosChapel Hill$2.2M
- Sue Ellen CoxChapel Hill$1.8M
- Donna CultonChapel Hill$424K
- Chris AdigunChapel Hill$71K
- Priyanka VedakChapel Hill$25K
- Rosalyn GeorgeWilmington$6.5M
- Steven FeldmanWinston Salem$4.3M
- Adnan NasirRaleigh$4.1M
- Zoe DraelosHigh Point$3M
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.