Christian Sorensen, MD
Family Medicine · Mooresville, NCNPI 1730138066
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 178 payments — averaging $15.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$438
- AstraZeneca$233
- Amgen$215
- Lilly USA, LLC$157
- GSK$143
- Bayer$138
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,829100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 29 | $438 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $233 |
| Amgen | 13 | $215 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $157 |
| GSK | 8 | $143 |
| Bayer | 10 | $138 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $119 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $105 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $95 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 7 | $90 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $73 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $69 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 4 | $65 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $60 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Gilead | 3 | $57 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $37 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $26 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $17 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Organon | 1 | $9 |
How this compares
$2,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,444 family medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 30 | $24,219 |
| EliquisApixaban | 25 | $19,174 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 13 | $14,315 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 14 | $14,083 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 18 | $11,342 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 13 | $7,072 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 14 | $5,398 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 18 | $1,481 |
| Gabapentin | 54 | $1,318 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 150 | $1,256 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 38 | $1,105 |
| Omeprazole | 65 | $1,024 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 39 | $899 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 100 | $724 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 79 | $635 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $105 | $24,21930 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $119 | $19,17425 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $143 | $16,74132 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $438 | $14,31513 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $157 | $14,08314 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $95 | $1,48118 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 80th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Mooresville
- Bruce SeatonMooresville$1.9M
- Rebecca AppletonMooresville$538K
- Timothy BarkerMooresville$200K
- Barton WilliamsWilmington$17.3M
- Alexander MurrayGreensboro$13M
- Arin PiramzadianJacksonville$13M
- Jonathan WilsonHickory$12.7M
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
- Cecil FarringtonSalisbury$6.4M
- Christian MartinShelby$5.4M
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.