Thomas Ortel, MD
Hematology · Durham, NCNPI 1003990995
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,261 payments — averaging $2571.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2.4M
- Instrumentation Laboratory Company$423K
- Diagnostica Stago, Inc$401K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$24K
- Omeros Corporation$15K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$11K
- plus $13K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,57874%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,3504%
- Travel & lodging$13,06221%
- Food & beverage$4321%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1,210 | $2,355,461 |
| Instrumentation Laboratory Company | 25 | $422,765 |
| Diagnostica Stago, Inc | 12 | $401,262 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 6 | $24,108 |
| Omeros Corporation | 2 | $14,760 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 3 | $11,368 |
| UCB SA | 2 | $8,000 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $4,680 |
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.
- narsoplimab$14,760
How this compares
$3,242,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 65 hematology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 108 | $113,843 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 43 | $46,013 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 28 | $14,172 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $720 |
| JantovenWarfarin Sodium | 65 | $579 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 69 | $544 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hematology in Durham
- Sascha TuchmanDurham$6.8M
- Lindsay ReinDurham$3.7M
- Gowthami ArepallyDurham$735K
- Alan CarlsonDurham$143K
- Jadee NeffDurham$71K
- Oluwatoyosi OnwuemeneDurham$19K
- Edward BuckleyDurham$6K
- Andrew PeseskiDurham$371
- Charity OyedejiDurham$125
- Alan Zausner SkarbnikCharlotte$9.8M
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.