Starla Horton, NP
Acute Care · Tupelo, MSNPI 1518412691
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,505 of the $3,145 with a category attached, or 79.7%. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Silk Road Medical, Inc. at 30.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,472 and has fallen 57.0% since, to $634 in 2025.
Across 91 payments — averaging $34.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$959
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$675
- Boston Scientific$171
- Medtronic$170
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$161
- Kerecis Limited$147
- plus $863 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$64020%
- Food & beverage$2,50580%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 14 | $959 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 17 | $675 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $171 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $170 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 8 | $161 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $147 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $112 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $65 |
| Abbott | 2 | $50 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $43 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Stimlabs LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Stryker | 1 | $15 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 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
$3,145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 223 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 57 | $335 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 21 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Tupelo
- Christopher BellTupelo$348K
- Megan WilliamsTupelo$11K
- Robin JacksonTupelo$3K
- Cynthia SmithTupelo$3K
- Kathleen ArnoldOcean Springs$217K
- Gavin GistOxford$42K
- Jamie DamicoOcean Springs$17K
- Dylan BoydHattiesburg$15K
- Melinda ClarkStarkville$14K
- Michelle TaylorGulfport$13K
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.