Who Paid My Doc
Paul Watkins
Gastroenterology Chapel Hill, NC Medical Doctor
NPI 1386705366 CMS profile 573301
101 Manning Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
General payments
$876,203
Research payments
$1,250
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$194,699
Through program year 2025, Paul Watkins of Chapel Hill, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $876,203 across 262 general payments and $1,250 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $194,699 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 99th percentile of Gastroenterology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $179,702 | 42 | |
| 2025 | Research | $1,250 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $92,879 | 26 | |
| 2023 | General | $126,801 | 38 | |
| 2022 | General | $95,952 | 33 | |
| 2021 | General | $99,179 | 28 | |
| 2020 | General | $123,193 | 29 | |
| 2019 | General | $158,498 | 66 |
Beside peers
- Paul Watkins
- Gastroenterology median
- Middle half of Gastroenterology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Paul Watkins were reported at $179,702. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.
Show as a table
| Year | Paul Watkins | Gastroenterology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $158,498 | $417 | $126–$1,100 | $163 |
| 2020 | $123,193 | $224 | $74–$624 | $114 |
| 2021 | $99,179 | $352 | $106–$1,054 | $132 |
| 2022 | $95,952 | $448 | $129–$1,270 | $149 |
| 2023 | $126,801 | $533 | $150–$1,390 | $160 |
| 2024 | $92,879 | $605 | $160–$1,606 | $164 |
| 2025 | $179,702 | $639 | $167–$1,700 | $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
263 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.
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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.