Pediatrics in North Carolina
1,818 providers, $17,227,481 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $168.
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 pediatrics clinicians in North Carolina
Across 40 pediatrics clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,451,090 in total — an average of $36,277 each, of which $28,524 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
- 1Dwight KoeberlDurham$8,382,233
- 2Priya KishnaniDurham$5,806,301
- 3James AndersonHigh Point$669,094
- 4Joseph MuenzerChapel Hill$236,599
- 5Ifeyinwa OsunkwoCharlotte$218,173
- 6Edward SmithDurham$164,297
- 7Katherine SmithRaleigh$132,757
- 8James StillRaleigh$105,210
- 9Richard BrugmanGastonia$73,274
- 10Daniel LandiDurham$70,226
- 11Timothy GershonChapel Hill$59,445
- 12Rasheed GbadegesinDurham$49,719
- 13Maria EscolarChapel Hill$42,385
- 14Mohamad MikatiDurham$34,532
- 15David BellNew Yor$33,770
- 16Gwyneth SpaederRaleigh$32,952
- 17Mark ReynoldsCharlotte$32,171
- 18David VanmaterDurham$32,105
- 19Stephanie DearmeyDurham$30,287
- 20David PedenChapel Hill$29,006
- 21Edwin FerrenCharlotte$28,826
- 22Elizabeth JalazoChapel Hill$21,827
- 23Lisa WhitleySalisbury$18,619
- 24Emmanuel WalterDurham$15,245
- 25Lauren HerlihyChapel Hill$14,673
- 26William MalcolmDurham$14,215
- 27Charlene WongDurham$10,783
- 28Carrie LewisRaleigh$10,311
- 29Steven ZeiselChapel Hill$10,130
- 30Matthew LaughonChapel Hill$9,625
- 31Erin DennisHigh Point$9,264
- 32Katlin YokeleyFayetteville$9,008
- 33Arvil BurksChapel Hill$8,400
- 34Pamela SteeleDurham$8,349
- 35Paul TrombleyCharlotte$7,993
- 36Emily ThompsonGreensboro$6,986
- 37Jerry BernsteinRaleigh$6,978
- 38James PooleWake Forest$6,804
- 39Leslie ClappRaleigh$6,650
- 40David LawrenceCharlotte$6,188
- 41Erin TrovillionCharlotte$5,801
- 42Brittany HendersonWinston Salem$5,564
- 43Thomas MurphyDurham$5,106
- 44Sarah ArmstrongDurham$4,892
- 45Vaidehi TrivediGastonia$4,856
- 46Teirraha LoweMount Airy$4,833
- 47Timothy van NoyNorth Wilkesboro$4,787
- 48Ravi RahejaWinston Salem$4,675
- 49Julie KochNorth Wilkesboro$4,539
- 50Lee FinkleaLexington$4,408
- 51Tatyana GolubHickory$4,062
- 52Salim IdrissDurham$4,057
- 53John PontzerNorth Wilkesboro$3,943
- 54Lindsay TorriceChapel Hill$3,897
- 55Kenneth SummerHickory$3,683
- 56Ann AdamsHickory$3,672
- 57Jennifer BallOxford$3,478
- 58John LonasBoone$3,478
- 59Kristen MumfordNorth Wilkesboro$3,433
- 60Cornelius CathcartHenderson$3,398