Interventional Pain Medicine in North Carolina
45 providers, $350,976 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,787.
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 interventional pain medicine clinicians in North Carolina
Across 36 interventional pain medicine clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $7,996,369 in total — an average of $222,121 each, of which $215,692 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
- 1Timothy ChafinAhoskie$58,791
- 2Robert WilsonSalisbury$37,303
- 3John MansfieldAsheville$25,373
- 4Erin ChaneyJacksonville$21,932
- 5Kevin CostelloGreenville$21,507
- 6Scott JohnstonJacksonville$20,391
- 7Harsh GovilStatesville$19,423
- 8Troy GingerichCharlotte$18,553
- 9Brent HarkriderNew Bern$14,422
- 10Carey-Walter ClossonCharlotte$13,726
- 11John HolderHampstead$9,327
- 12John KnabWilmington$9,160
- 13Alexander KieberAsheville$7,060
- 14Mark HinesMooresville$6,197
- 15Sunil AroraWilmington$6,088
- 16Michael MuellerPinehurst$5,569
- 17Robert TheissStatesville$5,344
- 18Jon David HoppenfeldCharlotte$4,564
- 19Aaron PanickerCary$4,269
- 20Glenn MacnicholRocky Mount$4,105
- 21William EdmistonMooresville$4,069
- 22Andrew KirsteinsGreensboro$3,380
- 23Erik DahlAsheville$2,787
- 24William EvansValdese$2,785
- 25Francis PecoraroWilmington$2,783
- 26Russell GilchristHickory$2,775
- 27Robert HurleyWinston Salem$2,401
- 28Aysel AtliRaleigh$2,163
- 29David SpiveyWinston-Salem$2,057
- 30Enrique GalangWinston Salem$1,969
- 31Charles DanielsWilmington$1,800
- 32Allyson BryantRaleigh$1,736
- 33Jennifer OliverWinston Salem$1,642
- 34Manoj WunnavaDurham$1,112
- 35Darshan PatelFuquay Varina$1,082
- 36Phuong NguyenBoone$701
- 37Emidio NovembreElkin$533
- 38Gregory CrispGreensboro$526
- 39Tarsha GarvinKernersville$524
- 40Daljit ButtarRaleigh$380
- 41Brandon WilliamsWinston Salem$176
- 42Sarah YousuffCharlotte$164
- 43Amber BrooksWinston Salem$155
- 44Richard StorkElkin$147
- 45Dennis WhiteAsheville$26