Has Nathan Carlton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $602 in general payments to Nathan Carlton, MD across 27 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 Nathan Carlton, 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 Nathan Carlton, 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.

Nathan Carlton, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1659932895

Payments from drug & device makers

$602in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $22.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$296
Novartis$104
Lilly USA, LLC$88
Medtronic$49
Tersera Therapeutics LLC$32
Abbott$32

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$602100%

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)	19	$296
Novartis	1	$104
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$88
Medtronic	3	$49
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$32
Abbott	1	$32

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.

ENTRESTO$104

How this compares

$602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 469 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$63,763

Medicare patients

158

Services billed

803

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
EliquisApixaban	15	$8,143
Baclofen	42	$529
Gabapentin	43	$524
Pantoprazole Sodium	44	$314
Metoprolol Succinate	23	$308
Atorvastatin Calcium	46	$291
Methocarbamol	38	$262
Levothyroxine Sodium	15	$141
Tamsulosin Hcl	19	$134
Oxycodone Hcl	26	$129
Trazodone Hcl	17	$93
Amlodipine Besylate	25	$79
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	11	$78
Losartan Potassium	12	$67
Lisinopril	13	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Adam RushGrand Rapids$3K
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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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