Obesity Medicine in North Carolina
14 providers, $696,418 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 obesity medicine clinicians in North Carolina
Across 12 obesity medicine clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $205,649 in total — an average of $17,137 each, of which $15,746 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
- 1Tiffany Lowe ClaytonFuquay Varina$455,320
- 2Melody CovingtonCharlotte$99,945
- 3Stephanie PageMorehead City$64,490
- 4Sriram MachineniChapel Hill$56,950
- 5Kristina LewisWinston Salem$13,772
- 6Rebecca ManganelloCary$1,622
- 7Thomas MarloweCharlotte$984
- 8Alex TseCary$770
- 9Karen BowenKernersville$699
- 10Alexandra GieddCharlotte$653
- 11Julie HowsonWaxhaw$557
- 12Firas GhomraouiAsheville$390
- 13Nicole MerliFuquay Varina$213
- 14Priya PatelCharlotte$53