NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

North Carolina Medicare prescriber rankings

45,303 North Carolina prescribers billed $10.2 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 7th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 4.16 of every 100 of those claims (CMS), above the national 3.52.

CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers, 2024; CMS NPPES · method · Verify with CMS →

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  • Prescribers45,303
  • Part D drug cost$10.2 billion
  • Average per prescriber$225,826
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)28,656 (63.27%)
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)4.16

Reading the North Carolina tables

North Carolina's 45,303 prescribers wrote 60,423,416 Part D claims in 2024, about $225,826 in drug cost per prescriber. A high total usually reflects specialty practice, such as cancer, rheumatology or HIV care, or vaccines: 1 of the 50 largest totals are mostly vaccines, which pharmacies often bill under a standing order naming one clinician. These are billing tables, not quality ratings. PlainDoctor does not rank named prescribers by opioid share; the state's opioid figures above come from CMS's own totals.

The 50 highest Part D drug-cost totals

Prescriber (NPPES taxonomy)Drug costClaims
1Daniel BauerHospitalist Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$45.2 million229,798
2William TownsendUrology Physician$24.2 million4,022
3Dalton McLeanAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$20.8 million13,325
4Terry FortinCardiovascular Disease Physician$17.8 million3,138
5Ami NdiayeNurse Practitioner$17.8 million1,428
6Kishan ParikhAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$15.1 million3,514
7Jordan RobinsonPhysician Assistant$13.8 million1,290
8Benjamin TrichonAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$12.6 million4,939
9Marc JohnsonInternal Medicine Physician$12.6 million5,563
10Sendhilnathan RamalingamMedical Oncology Physician$12.4 million2,958
11Sudarshan RajagopalCardiovascular Disease Physician$12.2 million1,803
12Rajiv ShahOphthalmology Physician$11.8 million6,391
13Suzanne KirbyHematology & Oncology Physician$11.8 million1,405
14William MitchellHematology & Oncology Physician$11.2 million2,074
15Sundhar RamalingamMedical Oncology Physician$11.1 million3,643
16Keith LerroHematology & Oncology Physician$11.1 million2,954
17Robert HolmesRheumatology Physician$11.0 million5,471
18Theodore FrankCardiovascular Disease Physician$10.6 million3,160
19Daniel BensimhonAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$10.6 million8,877
20Ronald GeorgeRheumatology Physician$10.0 million7,044
21Brent SkiverHematology & Oncology Physician$10.0 million2,270
22Vinay ThohanAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$9.9 million4,051
23Andrew SchreiberMedical Oncology Physician$9.7 million2,174
24Edward HillSpecialist$9.7 million10,019
25Hans HerfarthGastroenterology Physician$9.5 million1,306
26Andreas RunheimNeurology Physician$9.2 million17,592
27Sreedhar KatragaddaHematology & Oncology Physician$9.1 million4,745
28Cindy KennedyPharmacist$9.0 million6,965
29Glenn HerringtonPharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist$9.0 million6,192
30Paige PerezPharmacist$8.9 million1,216
31T RaoNeurology Physician$8.8 million2,176
32Urvi DesaiNeurology Physician$8.8 million958
33Kenneth KotzHematology & Oncology Physician$8.8 million1,929
34Michael RobinsonFamily Medicine Physician$8.6 million3,100
35Kapilkumar PatelCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician$8.6 million6,461
36Priya KishnaniPediatrics Physician$8.6 million110
37Timothy CollinsMedical Oncology Physician$8.6 million2,328
38Peter ZemanUrology Physician$8.5 million2,816
39Barbara LevargePulmonary Disease Physician$8.4 million1,692
40Darla LilesHematology & Oncology Physician$8.3 million2,469
41Cristina GasparettoInfectious Disease Physician$8.2 million556
42Sascha TuchmanHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$8.1 million872
43Hendrik VandeventerHematology & Oncology Physician$8.1 million948
44John ScagnelliNeurology Physician$8.1 million5,417
45Samer KasbariHematology & Oncology Physician$8.1 million3,038
46Kaushik SenMedical Oncology Physician$7.9 million2,596
47Patricia KropfHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$7.8 million1,800
48Kathleen ElliottHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$7.7 million2,057
49Robert GayRheumatology Physician$7.7 million6,393
50Elena WellenPharmacist$7.5 million5,796

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider, 2024 (data.cms.gov), matched to CMS NPPES by NPI; vaccine share from the prescriber's top drugs in the CMS by-provider-and-drug file. Specialty is the taxonomy the clinician reported to NPPES.

Common questions

How many Medicare prescribers are in North Carolina?

North Carolina has 45,303 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 60,423,416 claims totaling $10.2 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in North Carolina?

Opioids were 4.16 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by North Carolina prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 28,656 of the state's 45,289 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (63.27%) wrote at least one opioid.

Checking a prescriber

Open the prescriber's record for the full NPI entry and prescribing detail, then confirm the license on the state board search. The Part D file covers Medicare Part D only; commercial, Medicaid, VA and cash prescriptions are not in it.

Prescriber rankings in other states

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. American Samoa
  4. Arizona
  5. Arkansas
  6. California
  7. Colorado
  8. Connecticut
  9. Delaware
  10. District of Columbia
  11. Florida
  12. Georgia
  13. Guam
  14. Hawaii
  15. Idaho
  16. Illinois
  17. Indiana
  18. Iowa
  19. Kansas
  20. Kentucky
  21. Louisiana
  22. Maine
  23. Maryland
  24. Massachusetts
  25. Michigan
  26. Minnesota
  27. Mississippi
  28. Missouri
  29. Montana
  30. Nebraska
  31. Nevada
  32. New Hampshire
  33. New Jersey
  34. New Mexico
  35. New York
  36. North Carolina
  37. North Dakota
  38. Northern Mariana Islands
  39. Ohio
  40. Oklahoma
  41. Oregon
  42. Pennsylvania
  43. Puerto Rico
  44. Rhode Island
  45. South Carolina
  46. South Dakota
  47. Tennessee
  48. Texas
  49. Utah
  50. Vermont
  51. Virgin Islands
  52. Virginia
  53. Washington
  54. West Virginia
  55. Wisconsin
  56. Wyoming

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Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Medicare Part D data year 2024 (CMS).