Burke Thompson, MD
Surgery · Greensboro, NCNPI 1457336778
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,800 of the $6,207 with a category attached, or 77.3%. KCI USA, Inc. accounts for 85.2% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,424 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $77 in 2024.
Across 35 payments — averaging $177.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$5K
- Haemonetics Corporation$277
- Merck$73
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$56
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$52
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$51
- plus $410 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,80077%
- Travel & lodging$4888%
- Food & beverage$91915%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $5,288 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 5 | $277 |
| Merck | 3 | $73 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $56 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $40 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $36 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- ABTHERA$4,800
- VAC VERAFLO$448
- PREVENA$448
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$120
How this compares
$6,207 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other surgery in Greensboro
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- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- William HopeWilmington$350K
- Martyn KnowlesRaleigh$311K
- Walter BoydGreenville$311K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$304K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.