Thomas Templeton, MD
Anesthesiology · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1770568651
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,332 of the $2,030 with a category attached, or 65.6%. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated accounts for 93.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among anesthesiology clinicians in NC 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 16 payments — averaging $126.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$2K
- Medtronic$125
Across 25 payments — averaging $15,863 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$334K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$62K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,33266%
- Food & beverage$69834%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 15 | $1,904 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $125 |
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
$2,030 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,149 anesthesiology providers in North Carolina.
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.
Other anesthesiology in Winston Salem
- Jennifer StanislausWinston Salem$27K
- Evander BrittWinston Salem$26K
- Steven AbriolaWinston Salem$25K
- Paul HarkinsWinston Salem$19K
- Peter PanWinston Salem$15K
- Joseph TobinWinston Salem$6K
- Bhavika PatelWinston Salem$5K
- Chuanyao TongWinston Salem$4K
- Jeffrey GadsdenDurham$821K
- Gerald MaccioliRaleigh$330K
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.