Steven Bauer
Family Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1053402875
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,666 payments — averaging $1645.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$915K
- Pfizer$433K
- Novo Nordisk AS$353K
- AbbVie$302K
- Amgen$146K
- AstraZeneca$124K
- plus $469K from 54 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $2946.79 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Orexo US, Inc.$42K
- Pfizer$31K
- AbbVie$1000
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4002%
- Travel & lodging$2,11310%
- Food & beverage$19,62688%
- Education$790%
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.
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
$2,742,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,444 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 82 | $82,187 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 55 | $72,107 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 51 | $58,521 |
| EliquisApixaban | 35 | $40,045 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 19 | $18,713 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $15,509 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $11,901 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 279 | $2,738 |
| Ezetimibe | 116 | $2,296 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 188 | $2,174 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 166 | $2,099 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 31 | $2,066 |
| Omeprazole | 91 | $2,032 |
| Valsartan | 72 | $1,861 |
| Gabapentin | 48 | $1,611 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $124,462 | $82,18782 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $2,876 | $72,10755 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $621 | $58,52151 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $432,659 | $40,04535 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $22,201 | $15,50911 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $605 | $11,90112 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $68 | $2,099166 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $301,563 | $2,06631 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine | $62 | $1,45213 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $150 | $57558 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 95th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Charlotte
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
- Melissa JonesCharlotte$1.8M
- Laura LuptonCharlotte$811K
- Kevin SodenCharlotte$558K
- Joseph KonenCharlotte$322K
- Thomas BarringerCharlotte$305K
- Richard RachimaCharlotte$294K
- Dimitrios HondrosCharlotte$275K
- Jewell CarrCharlotte$164K
- William LarsenCharlotte$74K
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.