Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Cary Cotton

Individual provider Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1104272582

Cary Cotton practises Gastroenterology in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 2016, 10 years ago. Practices with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a 2,079-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in North Carolina.

Years since qualifying
10
Trained at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Licensed in
NC
In the registry since
2016
Specialties on file
2
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Practice location Address checks out

101 Manning Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-4220
Phone: (984) 974-1000
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Specialties & licences

Gastroenterology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RG0100X · Licence 2021-01433 (NC)
Internal Medicine Physician Taxonomy 207R00000X · Licence 218377 (NC)

Record details

NPI number1104272582
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMay 4, 2016
Last updated in NPPESOctober 21, 2022
Certification dateOctober 21, 2022

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGASTROENTEROLOGY
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 2016 (10 years in practice)
Group practice University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill — 2079 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux 74 times · 71st percentile
Colonoscopy 20 times · 48th percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients154
Services billed 229 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age72

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Consulting Fee $8,676 1 payment
Travel and Lodging $638 3 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $465 4 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

  • Unc Hospitals Hospital · Chapel Hill, NC · listed as UNC Hospital

Colleagues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2079 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

Other providers in Chapel Hill