John Thames, DO
Family Medicine · Wiggins, MSNPI 1689057721
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 203 payments — averaging $17.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$769
- AstraZeneca$611
- Novo Nordisk$363
- Lilly USA, LLC$290
- Merck$279
- Abbott$145
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,497100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 50 | $769 |
| AstraZeneca | 26 | $611 |
| Novo Nordisk | 22 | $363 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $290 |
| Merck | 18 | $279 |
| Abbott | 7 | $145 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $117 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 5 | $88 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $76 |
| Amgen | 3 | $75 |
| GSK | 4 | $73 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $72 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $52 |
| Bayer | 2 | $50 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $41 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 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
$3,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 971 family medicine providers in Mississippi.
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 | 121 | $139,529 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 136 | $127,675 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 132 | $97,849 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 96 | $87,304 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 68 | $63,103 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 59 | $54,861 |
| EliquisApixaban | 83 | $53,834 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 51 | $47,456 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 41 | $39,181 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 55 | $38,441 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 22 | $30,704 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 17 | $27,768 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 39 | $21,748 |
| Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 26 | $19,248 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 19 | $18,858 |
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, Trulicity | $290 | $194,390180 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $363 | $175,131187 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr, Belsomra | $279 | $143,077160 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Qtern | $611 | $108,184120 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $52 | $97,849132 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $117 | $53,83483 claims |
| AbbVieVraylar, Linzess, Synthroid | $769 | $45,74483 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix | $73 | $14,03829 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 971 family medicine providers in Mississippi.
Other family medicine in Wiggins
- Donald DoranWiggins$11K
- Paul MatherneGulfport$14.4M
- Timothy QuinnRidgeland$8M
- Sean KerbyGulfport$6.6M
- Rambod RouhbakhshHattiesburg$6M
- Randall HulingOlive Branch$4.6M
- Demetri MarshallPort Gibson$3M
- Alexander OsowaJackson$2.2M
- Russell CarlisleWesson$1.6M
- Kristi TrimmRidgeland$1.2M
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.