Has Traci Sheaffer received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,859 in general payments to Traci Sheaffer across 522 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Traci Sheaffer did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Traci Sheaffer come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Traci Sheaffer

Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Raleigh, NCNPI 1427080233

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,859in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 522 payments — averaging $16.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

UCB, Inc.$2K
Neurelis, Inc.$760
Livanova USA, Inc.$491
Eisai Inc.$488
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$368
AbbVie$353
plus $4K from 51 others

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
UCB, Inc.	107	$2,343
Neurelis, Inc.	40	$760
Livanova USA, Inc.	19	$491
Eisai Inc.	29	$488
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	25	$368
AbbVie(2 entities)	20	$353
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	15	$333
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	16	$300
Aucta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	17	$286
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	19	$286
Corium, LLC	12	$251
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	14	$245
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	5	$173
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	8	$151
Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC	8	$138
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	69	$130
Sanofi	5	$96
Harmony Biosciences LLC	4	$92
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$88
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$85
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	5	$81
SK Life Science, Inc.	3	$79
Tris Pharma Inc	5	$77
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	4	$74
Neos Therapeutics, LP	5	$68
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	4	$62
Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p.	4	$60
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	3	$58
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$54
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$51
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$47
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	2	$46
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	3	$46
Immedica Pharma US, Inc.	2	$46
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	2	$46
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$44
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	2	$37
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$37
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$33
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$29
Promius Pharma LLC	2	$28
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	2	$26
GE HealthCare	2	$25
Biogen	1	$25
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$24
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Intrabio Inc	1	$22
Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$21
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$19
CSL Behring	1	$17
Johnson & Johnson	1	$17
Metacel Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$16
Amgen	1	$16
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$14
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$11
Boston Scientific	1	$11

How this compares

$8,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 46 neurology with special qualifications in child neurology providers in North Carolina.

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Chon LeeWinston Salem$265K
Yael Shiloh-MalawskyChapel Hill$259K
Qian-Zhou YangChapel Hill$61K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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