Critical Care Medicine in North Carolina
190 providers, $2,729,240 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $269.
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 critical care medicine clinicians in North Carolina
Across 152 critical care medicine clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $8,312,457 in total — an average of $54,687 each, of which $53,086 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
- 1Alexis SmithHuntersville$725,902
- 2Rabih BecharaCharlotte$453,424
- 3Ashish KhannaWinston Salem$363,556
- 4Alan HeffnerCharlotte$325,598
- 5Daniel FeinsteinPinehurst$212,888
- 6Daniel FoxRaleigh$133,017
- 7Hassan YousafWinston Salem$97,313
- 8Neil MacintyreDurham$70,350
- 9Andrea MacdonaldRaleigh$67,373
- 10John DotyCharlotte$37,151
- 11Navneet AroraMatthews$22,814
- 12Stephenie MannsRaleigh$17,333
- 13Farhan AhmedWinston Salem$16,924
- 14Yuh Chin HuangDurham$16,413
- 15Chandar AbboyFayetteville$12,663
- 16Benjamin BregmanWinston Salem$10,898
- 17Alfred PapaliCharlotte$10,478
- 18Amar PanchalCharlotte$7,791
- 19Jason ThomasonWinston Salem$6,972
- 20Sean MurphyWinston Salem$6,467
- 21David DefeoWinston Salem$6,001
- 22Erica RaboldMonroe$5,258
- 23Lisa SoltisCary$4,985
- 24Raju CenturyConcord$4,982
- 25Michael PietrangeloRocky Mount$4,652
- 26Kamrooz GhadimiDurham$4,524
- 27Holly SmithWilmington$3,767
- 28Reginald FowlerWinston-Salem$3,431
- 29Khalid BashirAsheville$3,413
- 30Lacey SpanglerCharlotte$2,764
- 31Douglas HadenAlbemarle$2,662
- 32Lingye ChenDurham$2,603
- 33Romel GobunsuyWinston Salem$2,295
- 34Marija SullivanDurham$2,071
- 35Souheil Abdel NourMatthews$2,054
- 36Philip KeithWinston Salem$1,966
- 37Jeffrey WallsCharlotte$1,942
- 38Sachin HansaliaCharlotte$1,906
- 39Luke NeilansCharlotte$1,870
- 40Ameer KhanElizabeth City$1,851
- 41Kimberly McCreaCharlotte$1,778
- 42Maciej WalczyszynMatthews$1,661
- 43James RobertsCharlotte$1,658
- 44Blair BrownWinston Salem$1,576
- 45Gregory RossWinston Salem$1,513
- 46Todd OswaldWinston Salem$1,432
- 47Russell MillerPinehurst$1,402
- 48Eugene KimWaxhaw$1,300
- 49Samer Taj-EldinRaleigh$1,285
- 50Shantanu SinghDunn$1,178
- 51Ravi AgarwalaGreensboro$1,033
- 52Judit KuhnRaleigh$991
- 53Suresh JillellamudiWinston Salem$970
- 54David SimondsGreensboro$965
- 55Kenneth GallupElkin$837
- 56Cherylee ChangDurham$827
- 57Elias AshameGreensboro$818
- 58Adam WellsWinston Salem$805
- 59Omar AhmedBelmont$803
- 60Puneet AgarwalRaleigh$803