Carroll Thornburg, DO
Addiction Medicine · El Paso, TXNPI 1568460962
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $28,170 of the $32,862 with a category attached, or 85.7%. Alkermes, Inc. accounts for 89.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,567 and has fallen 55.2% since, to $6,531 in 2025. Among addiction medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 114 payments — averaging $288.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$30K
- Indivior Inc.$3K
- Corium, LLC$123
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$97
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$76
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$75
- plus $224 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7402%
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,17086%
- Travel & lodging$1,4985%
- Food & beverage$2,4297%
- Education$250%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alkermes, Inc. | 69 | $29,540 |
| Indivior Inc. | 13 | $2,727 |
| Corium, LLC | 7 | $123 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $75 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $72 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $46 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, 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.
How this compares
$32,862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 42 addiction medicine providers in Texas.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 40 | $42,290 |
| VivitrolNaltrexone Microspheres | 15 | $25,525 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 136 | $21,153 |
| Acamprosate Calcium | 15 | $2,828 |
| Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine | 13 | $2,287 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 52 | $2,273 |
| Naltrexone Hcl | 54 | $1,308 |
| Gabapentin | 54 | $937 |
| Clonazepam | 24 | $565 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 64 | $515 |
| Topiramate | 55 | $464 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 40 | $437 |
| Alprazolam | 35 | $428 |
| Ibuprofen | 24 | $337 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $322 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $17 | $42,29040 claims |
| Alkermes, Inc.Vivitrol | $29,540 | $25,52515 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 42 addiction medicine providers in Texas.
Other addiction medicine in El Paso
- Laura HoustonEl Paso$2K
- Thomas KostenHouston$85K
- Gloria MaguadogHouston$14K
- Charles IrwinDallas$11K
- Rany CherianBryan$6K
- Bo AllaireBellaire$6K
- James LaiHouston$6K
- Andre ChenRound Rock$4K
- Jeffrey ButtsBoerne$4K
- Michael SprintzHouston$2K
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.