Who Paid My Doc
Linda Belhorn
Rheumatology Durham, NC Medical Doctor
NPI 1043201692 CMS profile 137611
120 William Penn Plz, Durham, NC 27704
General payments
$1,020
Research payments
$145
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$259,345
Through program year 2023, Linda Belhorn of Durham, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,020 across 65 general payments and $145 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $259,345 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 39th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $106 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $208 | 5 | |
| 2022 | Research | $38 | 1 | |
| 2021 | General | $158 | 14 | |
| 2020 | General | $216 | 22 | |
| 2020 | Research | $107 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $332 | 22 |
Beside peers
- Linda Belhorn
- Rheumatology median
- Middle half of Rheumatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Linda Belhorn were reported at $0. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.
Show as a table
| Year | Linda Belhorn | Rheumatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $332 | $744 | $153–$2,687 | $163 |
| 2020 | $216 | $462 | $98–$2,027 | $114 |
| 2021 | $158 | $531 | $101–$2,153 | $132 |
| 2022 | $208 | $627 | $125–$2,303 | $149 |
| 2023 | $106 | $741 | $145–$2,524 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $830 | $166–$2,660 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $903 | $171–$2,775 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugsPart D claims
571
Drug cost
$457,443
Branded share of claims
39.6%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab | Brand | 53 | $359,485 | |
| Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept | Brand | 12 | $85,914 | |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | Generic | 85 | $4,665 | |
| Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium | Brand | 103 | $2,996 | |
| Sulfasalazine Dr Sulfasalazine | Brand | 58 | $1,323 | |
| Prednisone | Generic | 163 | $964 | |
| Leflunomide | Generic | 20 | $906 | |
| Sulfasalazine | Generic | 21 | $628 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 17 | $195 | |
| Alendronate Sodium | Generic | 13 | $147 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 6 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$9,465
Medicare patients
61
Services billed
112
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 72% | |
| Osteoporosis | 36% | |
| Depression | 25% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 23% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 21% | |
| Diabetes | 20% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 20% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
67 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
Other Rheumatology in North Carolina
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Doctors in North Carolina
Every practitioner in the state with a reported payment.
How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.