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

CHARLES SIMS THORNTON

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner

NPI
1447631692
CMS profile
10905216
Location
CULLMAN, AL

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$1,024.78

  • Reported across 56 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$243.82

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 $243.82 14

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $17.83 1
PY2022 $374.55 20
PY2023 $388.58 21
PY2024 $243.82 14

Payment records · PY2024 (14)

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

Program year 2024 202120222023 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
Amgen Inc. $13.77 01/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117701084 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.65 05/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117701086 CMS
Amgen Inc. $14.54 09/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117701088 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.34 03/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105222214 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.86 04/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105784138 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $13.47 09/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086368065 CMS
ConvaTec Inc. $21.62 02/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151394271 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $14.82 09/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114557983 CMS
MEDICOMP INC $23.23 04/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1067448800 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $17.56 05/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100537682 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $18.85 09/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100306621 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $16.82 10/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100571410 CMS
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $24.07 11/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139897330 CMS
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $18.22 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137834065 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
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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