Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Robert Ferris

Otolaryngology Raleigh, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1851364509 CMS profile 265316

2901 Blue Ridge Rd Ste 201, Raleigh, NC 27607

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General payments

$257,795

233 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$5,499

Paid to them · 3 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$2,245,182 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Robert Ferris of Raleigh, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $257,795 across 233 general payments and $5,499 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $2,245,182 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 Otolaryngology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $108,945 86
2024 General $40,175 30
2023 General $21,279 36
2022 General $17,786 10
2021 General $14,353 7
2021 Research $4,000 1
2020 General $17,032 8
2020 Research $1,499 2
2019 General $38,225 56

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Robert Ferris
  • Otolaryngology median
  • Middle half of Otolaryngology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Ferris were reported at $108,945. Among 6,588 Otolaryngology profiles paid that year, the median was $317 and the middle half received between $125 and $815.

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Year Robert Ferris Otolaryngology median Middle half National median
2019 $38,225 $194 $82–$512 $163
2020 $17,032 $118 $42–$280 $114
2021 $14,353 $167 $63–$444 $132
2022 $17,786 $216 $84–$545 $149
2023 $21,279 $235 $93–$588 $160
2024 $40,175 $280 $111–$699 $164
2025 $108,945 $317 $125–$815 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $70,952 58 payments
  2. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $44,421 27 payments
  3. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $31,158 38 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $18,597 8 payments
  5. Merck KGaA $13,755 3 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $13,291 20 payments
  7. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $11,677 13 payments
  8. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG $9,920 2 payments
  9. AstraZeneca UK Limited $9,889 10 payments
  10. Eisai Inc. $7,300 2 payments
  11. Other $26,835 52 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $171,384 60 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $41,853 68 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $37,693 5 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $6,865 100 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LIBTAYO $46,525 46 payments
  2. KEYTRUDA $24,274 31 payments
  3. BAVENCIO $14,929 6 payments
  4. TECENTRIQ $13,453 10 payments
  5. Lenvima $3,100 1 payment
  6. ENHERTU $1,888 3 payments
  7. IMFINZI $537 1 payment
  8. Udenyca $237 2 payments
  9. DARZALEX $212 2 payments
  10. ERLEADA $212 2 payments
  11. Other $1,008 11 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Foundation Medicine, Inc. $4,000 1 payment
  2. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,499 2 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 1 drug

Part D claims

22

Median for Otolaryngology: 297

Drug cost

$170

Median for Otolaryngology: $6,314

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Otolaryngology: 10.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Omeprazole Generic 22 $170

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 9,296 Part D prescribers listed as Otolaryngology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$15,311

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

43

Average age 75

Services billed

78

17 women, 26 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 60%
Ischemic heart disease 49%
Depression 37%
Diabetes 30%

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.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
LIBTAYO
  • Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $14,007
$14,007 — —
Udenyca
  • Coherus Biosciences Inc. $142
$142 — —
CALQUENCE
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $95
$95 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

236 reported

Every 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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What this means

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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