Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

CHRISTOPHER S THOMPSON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

NPI
1225135478
CMS profile
55299
Location
LAKE CHARLES, LA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$3,890.10

  • Reported across 206 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$272.34

14 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $272.34 14

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $848.09 50
PY2019 $991.71 51
PY2020 $103.78 7
PY2021 $503.94 29
PY2022 $719.91 38
PY2023 $450.33 17
PY2024 $272.34 14

Payment records · PY2024 (14)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABIOMED $24.10 08/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142242083 CMS
Biogen, Inc. $26.57 06/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104844464 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $14.60 01/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101445575 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $13.54 07/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101445643 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $14.32 08/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101445755 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $23.59 05/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138816403 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $24.92 07/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138816431 CMS
Itamar Medical Inc $20.58 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154007067 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $16.73 01/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1087361032 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $16.57 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1087361034 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $20.28 07/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1087361038 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $17.00 11/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1087361046 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $23.70 03/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080582769 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $15.84 07/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080583059 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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