Tamas Balogh, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Mount Airy, NCNPI 1245235167
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 140 payments — averaging $878.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$72K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$26K
- Novartis$17K
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$7K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$511
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$264
- plus $1K from 15 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $7157.00 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.
- Eli Lilly$14K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,358100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 4 | $71,818 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 45 | $25,785 |
| Novartis | 5 | $16,959 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg | 1 | $6,677 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 6 | $511 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 26 | $264 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $204 |
| Merck | 7 | $158 |
| Amgen | 8 | $125 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $124 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $59 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $56 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| Bayer | 2 | $25 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ORENITRAM$124
How this compares
$123,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 774 | $608,878 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 185 | $186,434 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 24 | $16,518 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 20 | $14,664 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 28 | $6,857 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 621 | $6,670 |
| Valsartan | 306 | $6,471 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 12 | $4,022 |
| Carvedilol | 588 | $3,850 |
| Digoxin | 161 | $3,310 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 117 | $2,305 |
| Losartan Potassium | 228 | $2,247 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 136 | $2,012 |
| Ezetimibe | 96 | $1,875 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 197 | $1,771 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $56 | $608,878774 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $204 | $186,434185 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $16,959 | $16,51824 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 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
Other cardiovascular disease in Mount Airy
- John AlexanderDurham$76.8M
- Christopher GrangerDurham$24.7M
- Jonathan PicciniDurham$14.3M
- Adrian HernandezDurham$13.2M
- Gary FelkerDurham$12.7M
- Robert MentzDurham$6M
- Michael ShapiroWinston-Salem$5.4M
- Kirkwood AdamsChapel Hill$4.9M
- Matthew JanikWilmington$4M
- Nishant ShahDurham$3.5M
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.