Stephen McIntyre
Family Medicine · Hickory, NCNPI 1861475725
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,430 of the $5,410 with a category attached, or 81.9%. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among family medicine clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 254 payments — averaging $21.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- AstraZeneca$716
- Novo Nordisk$421
- Johnson & Johnson$409
- Bayer$363
- AbbVie$309
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$96318%
- Food & beverage$4,43082%
- Education$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 9 | $1,193 |
| AstraZeneca | 29 | $716 |
| Novo Nordisk | 36 | $421 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $409 |
| Bayer | 14 | $363 |
| AbbVie | 29 | $309 |
| GSK | 19 | $309 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 10 | $301 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $216 |
| Preventric Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $210 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $162 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $119 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $115 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $100 |
| Novartis | 5 | $83 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Merck | 5 | $62 |
| Amgen | 2 | $32 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $32 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $27 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$5,410 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Hickory
- William CromwellRaleigh$879K
- Steve VacalisGastonia$693K
- David DundeeWinston Salem$633K
- Kevin SodenCharlotte$558K
- Brian ForrestApex$398K
- Joseph KonenCharlotte$322K
- Richard RachimaCharlotte$294K
- Dimitrios HondrosCharlotte$275K
- Domingo Rodriguez-CueGarner$253K
- Christopher ChaoCary$201K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.