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

JOEL C SESSIONS

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Physician Assistant

NPI
1902263163
CMS profile
9456453
Location
FLORENCE, AL

General Payments · PY2021–2023

$228.16

  • Reported across 28 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$180.55

25 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.
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By nature of payment

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $180.55 25

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $151.40 23
ABBVIE INC. $16.34 1
Horizon Pharma plc $12.81 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $31.65 2
PY2022 $15.96 1
PY2023 $180.55 25

Payment records · PY2023 (25)

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

Program year 2023 20212022 Record-level detail is published for PY2023; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $16.34 12/01/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1009766593 CMS
Horizon Therapeutics plc $12.81 03/10/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 987112037 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $9.00 01/03/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930133 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $13.70 01/09/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930141 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $9.97 02/01/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930149 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $5.77 02/21/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930157 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $7.59 02/28/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930165 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $7.21 03/20/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930174 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $6.13 04/10/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930183 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $2.96 04/26/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930191 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $4.16 05/08/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930199 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $8.67 05/10/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930207 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $6.31 05/22/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930213 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $3.71 06/20/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930221 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $5.46 07/07/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930229 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $6.01 07/18/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930235 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $9.64 08/08/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930245 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $2.10 08/15/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930253 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $2.41 08/21/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930261 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $3.02 08/28/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930269 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $10.96 09/05/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930277 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $2.18 09/12/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930285 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $8.90 10/03/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930291 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $7.00 10/23/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930301 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $8.54 11/14/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1003930309 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2023_P01232026_01102026.csv

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