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Internal Medicine in North Carolina

3,302 providers, $14,183,249 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $163.

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 internal medicine clinicians in North Carolina

Part B allowed per clinician, 2024
$94,118
Of which, services
$82,002
Clinicians billing Part B
2,573

Across 2,573 internal medicine clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $242,164,330 in total — an average of $94,118 each, of which $82,002 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

  1. 1Nirmish ShahDurham$861,816
  2. 2Eugene WrightFayetteville$838,901
  3. 3Saad UsmaniCharlotte$551,318
  4. 4Bhakti PaulRaleigh$535,908
  5. 5Mary KlotmanDurham$477,856
  6. 6Manesh PatelDurham$435,408
  7. 7Millie LongChapel Hill$373,869
  8. 8Marc JohnsonCharlotte$341,672
  9. 9Christina CraterRaleigh$330,450
  10. 10Jamy ArdWinston Salem$292,596
  11. 11Michael SoboeiroPinehurst$281,979
  12. 12Steven ManuliElizabeth City$274,009
  13. 13Maithili ChitnavisCharlotte$266,665
  14. 14Stephen BurgessGastonia$239,805
  15. 15Charles CookRaleigh$227,640
  16. 16William PendergraftChapel Hill$210,198
  17. 17Patricia LugarDurham$197,453
  18. 18Jonathan SchwartzCharlotte$193,199
  19. 19Hector SanchezWilmington$193,154
  20. 20Edward BarnesChapel Hill$170,512
  21. 21Rebecca RichDurham$160,458
  22. 22Katharine BattWinston Salem$153,491
  23. 23Perry RoyCharlotte$134,564
  24. 24Saira SheikhChapel Hill$123,414
  25. 25Adam DevoreDurham$111,825
  26. 26Jennings DawkinsCary$108,570
  27. 27Kevin ThomasDurham$101,198
  28. 28Julius WilderDurham$97,334
  29. 29David ClemmonsChapel Hill$95,565
  30. 30Richard RiedelDurham$95,081
  31. 31Benjamin BrooksCharlotte$91,495
  32. 32Frederick AsareFayetteville$85,963
  33. 33Douglas KellingConcord$84,071
  34. 34Anthony AzziRaleigh$81,371
  35. 35Julie BaugherSouthern Pines$80,774
  36. 36Mark SchwartzCharlotte$79,536
  37. 37Jennifer RymerDurham$73,254
  38. 38Dishita PandyaRaleigh$70,621
  39. 39Nicholas PiazzaChapel Hill$69,148
  40. 40Jamie ToddDurham$68,582
  41. 41Afreen ShariffRaleigh$65,986
  42. 42Thomas WalshCharlotte$63,521
  43. 43Matthew FosterChapel Hill$59,806
  44. 44Aparna SwaminathanDurham$57,208
  45. 45Menelaos VoulgaropoulosStatesville$54,531
  46. 46Shandal EmanuelNashville$50,575
  47. 47Lisa BellanfonteCharlotte$45,445
  48. 48Martin MurphyWinston Salem$42,432
  49. 49Samuel RubinsteinChapel Hill$39,762
  50. 50Jennifer RogersChapel Hill$39,066
  51. 51Nwora OkekeDurham$37,911
  52. 52Greg RobicheauxGastonia$37,500
  53. 53April SalamaDurham$35,405
  54. 54Hope UronisDurham$34,757
  55. 55Sandip PatelFayetteville$34,420
  56. 56John PhippsWinston Salem$31,666
  57. 57Henry CremisiMatthews$30,647
  58. 58Thomas BellGreensboro$28,972
  59. 59Llewellyn MensahWinston Salem$28,392
  60. 60James BrennanDurham$25,945
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