Sidney Myles, MD
Internal Medicine · Hickory, NCNPI 1447215900
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 270 payments — averaging $18.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$727
- AbbVie$461
- Johnson & Johnson$404
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$387
- Alkermes, Inc.$382
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$356
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,057100%
- Education$20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 35 | $727 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 28 | $461 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $404 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 19 | $387 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 21 | $382 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 23 | $356 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 16 | $326 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 16 | $295 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 14 | $294 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 10 | $191 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $176 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $142 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $136 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 7 | $118 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $116 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 4 | $60 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $51 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 3 | $46 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $41 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- REXULTI$125
How this compares
$5,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 21 | $30,501 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 41 | $28,829 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 18 | $28,695 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 41 | $11,875 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 13 | $6,783 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 272 | $6,307 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 172 | $5,687 |
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 11 | $4,906 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 212 | $4,386 |
| Lamotrigine ErLamotrigine | 15 | $3,373 |
| Olanzapine | 115 | $3,155 |
| Aripiprazole | 113 | $3,026 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 136 | $2,832 |
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 37 | $2,803 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 53 | $2,486 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieVraylar | $461 | $30,50121 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $356 | $28,82941 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $727 | $28,69518 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $60 | $1,443195 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 85th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Hickory
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- John RubinoRaleigh$13M
- Adam DevoreDurham$11.8M
- Krishnakumar UdayakumarDurham$11M
- Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
- Wayne HarperRaleigh$6.7M
- Joseph MoranStatesville$6.7M
- April SalamaDurham$6.5M
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.