Addiction Medicine in North Carolina
42 providers, $520,683 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $250.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays addiction medicine clinicians in North Carolina
Across 17 addiction medicine clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $405,240 in total — an average of $23,838 each, of which $23,838 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Bernard GottschalkWilmington$188,218
- 2Hien NguyenApex$145,173
- 3Gary LeonhardtGreenville$91,631
- 4Emily Rayes-PrinceMonroe$68,530
- 5Jonathan HallHendersonville$8,092
- 6Barry WilliamsWinston-Salem$3,715
- 7Johnny WilliamsGreenville$3,131
- 8Heather ManosCharlotte$2,501
- 9Sara KoenigCary$1,915
- 10Richard PavelockStatesville$1,413
- 11Gail GriffinCharlotte$655
- 12Jonathan ButlerCharlotte$620
- 13Jill ThompsonGastonia$528
- 14George ColemanRaleigh$437
- 15Logan AdamsCharlotte$394
- 16Afrayem MorganCharlotte$380
- 17Kelsie PierreCharlotte$324
- 18Kent SeitzCharlotte$314
- 19Lucien WilkinsShallotte$279
- 20Heidi WorthJacksonville$261
- 21David RyanGreenville$250
- 22Ureh LekwauwaWinston Salem$243
- 23Geeta McGaheyCharlotte$192
- 24Michael SmithDuck$191
- 25Julius MalletteKinston$190
- 26Seif AtyiaCharlotte$143
- 27John MartinAsheville$131
- 28Charles StutesmanAsheville$128
- 29John HarrisWilmington$103
- 30Jason JerryPinehurst$98
- 31James FinchDurham$97
- 32Stephanie NewbyCharlotte$95
- 33Christopher ThompsonRaleigh$71
- 34Robyn JordanRaleigh$58
- 35Anne DixonBoone$55
- 36Jana BursonCornelius$33
- 37Cauveh EramiLumberton$30
- 38Celia SpillmannSalisbury$27
- 39Yashica RuffinOxford$19
- 40Ralph ReachAsheville$17
- 41Denise TorresChapel Hill$0
- 42Sevdalina Dabova-MissovaGreenville$0