Open Payments · North Carolina

What drug & device companies paid North Carolina doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $3.28B in payments to 61,608 North Carolina physicians and teaching hospitals — broken down below by congressional district and county, plus who paid and who got paid. ‹ Back to the national map

$3.28B
reported 2018–2024
61,608
physicians paid
$53,280
avg / physician
2,193
companies paying
$18M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays North Carolina doctors, and who gets paid

2018–2024 reported payments, from Civly's loaded copy of CMS Open Payments. A payment is a disclosure, not an accusation.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
PFIZER INC.$530M
ModernaTX, Inc.$219M
CSL Behring$143M
Janssen Research & Development…$102M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$97M
ViiV Healthcare Company$97M
Amgen Inc.$96M
Eli Lilly and Company$91M
Genentech, Inc.$88M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$85M

Biggest recipients

North Carolina physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Fehring Thomas$18M
Lippitt Robert$13M
Koeberl Dwight$8M
Beaver Walter$8M
Isaacs Robert$7M
Jiranek William$7M
Davis Hodges$6M
Kishnani Priya$6M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Orthopaedic Surgery$124M
Neurological Surgery$29M
Urology$24M
Internal Medicine$24M
Cardiovascular Disease$24M
Hematology & Oncology$21M
Pediatrics$18M
Psychiatry$16M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

61,608

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$3.28B

reported across 3,243,303 individual payments.

How North Carolina compares nationally

North Carolina is one of the country's biggest markets for industry money, ranking 7th of 51 for total reported payments — $3.28B across 3,243,303 individual payments from 2018 to 2024, 4.2% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Spread across the 61,608 North Carolina physicians and teaching hospitals that took at least one payment, that's $53,280 per recipient — about 28% above the $41,481 national average, 7th of 51 on a per-physician basis. Within the state, the biggest single payer was PFIZER INC. at $530M; Orthopaedic Surgery took in more than any other specialty; the state's largest individual recipient, Fehring Thomas, was paid $18M across 290 payments.

#7
of 51 — total payments
#7
of 51 — per physician
4.2%
of all U.S. payments

Compare with nearby states

Every state gets the same breakdown — payments mapped by district and county, top payers and specialties, and a doctor lookup. Or start from the national map.