Tom Christensen
Family Medicine · Little River, SCNPI 1164429825
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.1% of the total across 657 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 43 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 10.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,077 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $49 in 2023. Among family medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 657 payments — averaging $18.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$1K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$990
- Amgen$959
- plus $6K from 37 others
Across 1,055 payments — averaging $2928.62 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.
- Pfizer$2.4M
- Amgen$214K
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$91K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$70K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$70K
- Novo Nordisk AS$70K
- plus $127K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,02398%
- Education$2112%
- Gifts$200%
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.
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
$12,254 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Little River
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$21K
- Darron MolterLittle River$20K
- Stephen BruntonWinnsboro$1.3M
- Richard WilkesMt Pleasant$216K
- Andrew MartinColumbia$205K
- Ada StewartColumbia$186K
- Jeffrey BroderNorth Augusta$140K
- Terry NagelColumbia$112K
- Katherine JohnsonGreenwood$80K
- Scott SmithMount Pleasant$68K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.