Teal Mefford
Family · Thornton, CONPI 1932654555
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 681 payments — averaging $92.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$29K
- Lilly USA, LLC$24K
- Pfizer$2K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$845
- plus $5K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,55373%
- Travel & lodging$3,5916%
- Food & beverage$13,55922%
- Education$430%
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 | 246 | $29,353 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 64 | $23,673 |
| Pfizer | 30 | $2,112 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 56 | $1,090 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 58 | $1,020 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $845 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | $809 |
| Gilead | 50 | $745 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 29 | $509 |
| Sanofi | 15 | $357 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $346 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 17 | $291 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $256 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 19 | $240 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $203 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $123 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $116 |
| Merck | 6 | $110 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $51 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Mylan Institutional Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $27 |
| Orphalan Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Organon | 1 | $20 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$62,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,182 family providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lubiprostone | 14 | $1,011 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 26 | $263 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Thornton
- Lauren BernatisThornton$17K
- Mackenzie CourtneyThornton$7K
- Laura GrahamLakewood$1.6M
- Corinne YoungColorado Springs$272K
- Margaret MachaffieColorado Springs$97K
- April RossGrand Junction$95K
- Jeannette LillerColorado Springs$74K
- Jacquita JordanColorado Springs$52K
- Stephanie HanenbergColorado Springs$40K
- Courtney WeirFort Collins$30K
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.