Christine Thomas, MD
General Practice · Emmitsburg, MDNPI 1215984406
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 37 payments — averaging $47.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$411
- AstraZeneca$279
- Indivior Inc.$257
- Bristol Myers Squibb$127
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$111
- Johnson & Johnson$106
- plus $481 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,74298%
- Education$302%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $411 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $279 |
| Indivior Inc. | 12 | $257 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $127 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $106 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $103 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $101 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 6 | $89 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $30 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $15 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,772 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,843 general practice providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 137 | $18,246 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 36 | $592 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 39 | $506 |
| Lisinopril | 59 | $385 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 18 | $383 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 35 | $375 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 24 | $357 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 55 | $252 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 18 | $228 |
| Metformin Hcl | 29 | $194 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $151 |
| Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide | 19 | $149 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 15 | $115 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 14 | $76 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general practice in Emmitsburg
- Dennis NorkiewiczRockville$6.3M
- Nancy WardBaltimore$282K
- Craig WashingtonFrederick$271K
- Paul NiesenGaithersburg$257K
- Kevin FriedmanBethesda$148K
- Edward SwansonBaltimore$123K
- Gregori KurtzmanSilver Spring$112K
- Russell MorrowWaldorf$86K
- Thomas YoonGaithersburg$73K
- Eric RabovskyCrownsville$35K
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.