Cardiovascular Disease in North Carolina
727 providers, $16,074,173 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,959.
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 cardiovascular disease clinicians in North Carolina
Across 570 cardiovascular disease clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $94,414,528 in total — an average of $165,640 each, of which $162,805 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
- 1R WilliamsDurham$2,141,887
- 2Marat FudimDurham$902,454
- 3Jonathan PicciniDurham$766,852
- 4Michael RinaldiCharlotte$722,265
- 5Markus SchererCharlotte$526,029
- 6Robert MentzDurham$489,107
- 7Sean PokorneyMorganton$476,703
- 8Adrian HernandezDurham$408,503
- 9Sanjeev GulatiCharlotte$406,004
- 10Richard BrowneCharlotte$378,831
- 11Neha PagidipatiDurham$301,128
- 12Joseph KissloDurham$282,928
- 13Mitchell KrucoffDurham$280,855
- 14Ankeet BhattDurham$257,615
- 15Christopher GrangerDurham$256,517
- 16Gary FelkerDurham$256,423
- 17Sunil Prakash ChandWilson$231,918
- 18Christopher KellyRaleigh$200,886
- 19Dalane KitzmanWinston Salem$199,001
- 20Rohit MehtaCharlotte$188,525
- 21Camille Frazier MillsDurham$167,093
- 22Michael ShapiroWinston-Salem$162,831
- 23Michel KhouriDurham$161,062
- 24Brian PowellCharlotte$160,179
- 25David KongDurham$144,359
- 26Ravi KarraDurham$143,126
- 27Sudarshan RajagopalDurham$139,038
- 28Tiffany RandolphGreensboro$132,751
- 29Robert LefkowitzDurham$129,751
- 30Andrew WangDurham$115,516
- 31Nicole Cyrille-SupervilleCharlotte$114,776
- 32Timothy NicholsChapel Hill$112,834
- 33John AlexanderDurham$103,460
- 34Cameron LambertGreensboro$98,935
- 35Rajasekhar NekkantiGreenville$96,608
- 36Kobina WilmotMooresville$92,719
- 37Mohammad KhanDurham$90,069
- 38Matthew RoeDurham$88,153
- 39Wesley O'NealGreensboro$85,398
- 40Sreekanth VemulapalliDurham$85,189
- 41Noreen KellyCharlotte$83,965
- 42Dermot PhelanCharlotte$76,205
- 43Charles SimontonCharlotte$72,950
- 44Andrew AmbrosyDurham$71,638
- 45Kevin JacksonDurham$71,097
- 46Satish MisraCharlotte$63,831
- 47Carlos Arrieta GarciaWilmington$59,751
- 48Nishant ShahDurham$56,523
- 49Laura NewbyDurham$55,748
- 50Raymond KimDurham$54,762
- 51Santosh RaoConcord$54,707
- 52George BodziockWinston Salem$53,707
- 53Kenneth HiltyGreensboro$51,332
- 54Theodore FrankCharlotte$50,610
- 55Sherry SaxonhouseCharlotte$50,448
- 56Glen KowalchukHuntersville$49,703
- 57Lee SurkinGreenville$49,634
- 58Katarina NelsonGreensboro$46,448
- 59Patrick KozakWinston Salem$44,398
- 60Linda CalhounWilmington$42,024