Has David Talton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $205,329 in general payments to David Talton, MD across 351 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Talton, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Talton, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Talton, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tupelo, MSNPI 1629078746

Payments from drug & device makers

$205,329in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 351 payments — averaging $584.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$130K
Edwards Lifesciences$52K
Abbott$10K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Abiomed$2K
Baxter Healthcare$2K
plus $6K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9054%
Travel & lodging$8,86338%
Food & beverage$13,37458%

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
Atricure, Inc.	41	$130,444
Edwards Lifesciences	61	$52,052
Abbott	54	$10,279
Zimmer Biomet	11	$2,342
Abiomed	26	$2,086
Baxter Healthcare	17	$1,688
Artivion, Inc.	13	$1,413
Elutia, Inc.	18	$1,189
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	18	$993
Medtronic(2 entities)	22	$754
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	11	$247
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$241
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	3	$177
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$152
Cook Medical LLC	4	$141
Penumbra, Inc.	4	$135
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	3	$133
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	7	$101
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$80
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	3	$66
Intuitive Surgical	1	$55
Corcym Inc	2	$53
Philips North America LLC	1	$47
Convatec Inc.	2	$42
Davol Inc.	3	$42
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$35
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$33
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	1	$31
Potrero Medical, Inc.	1	$26
Boston Scientific	1	$25
Stimlabs LLC	1	$23
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$21
Smith+Nephew	1	$20
Kerecis Limited	1	$17
Biocomposites Inc	1	$16
Daxor Corporation	1	$16
Biom'up France SAS	1	$16
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$15
Stryker	1	$15
Z-medica, LLC	1	$14
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$14
Pfizer	1	$14
BD	1	$14
EKOS Corporation	1	$11

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

$205,329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 42 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$369,166

Medicare patients

251

Services billed

666

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tupelo

Vishal SachdevTupelo$35K
Evan GarnerTupelo$11K
Dakota KingTupelo$6K
John NeillTupelo$3K
Robert DerveloyTupelo$2K
Donald NetherlandMcComb$246K
Lacy McClainHattiesburg$97K
Galen OhnmachtJackson$83K
Pierre de DelvaJackson$71K
William SmithOcean Springs$34K

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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.

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