James Thornton, MD
Plastic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1457381949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Integra Lifesciences Corporation accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $14,857, more than ten times the $538 reported in 2019. Among plastic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 46 payments — averaging $645.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$24K
- Polynovo North America LLC$4K
- Covidien LP$420
- Access Pro Medical, LLC$233
- TELA Bio, Inc.$225
- Kerecis Limited$178
- plus $582 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,20058%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4201%
- Travel & lodging$9,75033%
- Food & beverage$2,3298%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 28 | $24,190 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 5 | $3,869 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $420 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $233 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $225 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $178 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $140 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $32 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $29 |
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.
- INTEGRA$47,721
- Novosorb BTM$3,713
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,956
- PRIMATRIX$1,956
- GENTRIX$902
- Kerecis SurgiClose$714
- LigaSure$420
- Matriderm$233
- Kerecis GraftGuide$178
- TRUMATCH$140
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$125
- Phasix Mesh$125
How this compares
$29,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 337 plastic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 68 | $436 |
| Mupirocin | 30 | $262 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 41 | $215 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Dallas
- Rodney RohrichDallas$388K
- John TebbettsDallas$92K
- James SmarttDallas$91K
- Sameer JejurikarDallas$41K
- Jessica BilligDallas$26K
- Frederick DuffyDallas$24K
- Kent HughesDallas$24K
- Douglas SammerDallas$21K
- Phillip DauweDallas$17K
- Jonathan NathanDallas$14K
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.