Who Paid My Doc
Michael Kappelman
Pediatric Gastroenterology Chapel Hill, NC Medical Doctor
NPI 1720056179 CMS profile 214122
101 Manning Dr, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
General payments
$71,084
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$264,694
Through program year 2025, Michael Kappelman of Chapel Hill, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $71,084 across 43 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $264,694 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 97th percentile of Pediatric Gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $3,200 | 2 | |
| 2024 | General | $3,200 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $13,063 | 7 | |
| 2022 | General | $15,879 | 10 | |
| 2021 | General | $16,935 | 10 | |
| 2020 | General | $10,238 | 5 | |
| 2019 | General | $8,569 | 7 |
Beside peers
- Michael Kappelman
- Pediatric Gastroenterology median
- Middle half of Pediatric Gastroenterology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Kappelman were reported at $3,200. Among 1,132 Pediatric Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $194 and the middle half received between $81 and $540.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Kappelman | Pediatric Gastroenterology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $8,569 | $131 | $41–$311 | $163 |
| 2020 | $10,238 | $79 | $23–$223 | $114 |
| 2021 | $16,935 | $104 | $32–$321 | $132 |
| 2022 | $15,879 | $125 | $37–$331 | $149 |
| 2023 | $13,063 | $169 | $55–$440 | $160 |
| 2024 | $3,200 | $196 | $73–$563 | $164 |
| 2025 | $3,200 | $194 | $81–$540 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
43 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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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.