Has William Thompson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,913 in general payments to William Thompson, MD across 425 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 William Thompson, 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 William Thompson, 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.

William Thompson, MD

General Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1881670727

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,913in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 425 payments — averaging $30.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Davol Inc.$2K
Intuitive Surgical$1K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1000
Johnson & Johnson$804
AbbVie$666
AstraZeneca$564
plus $7K from 54 others

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
Davol Inc.	14	$1,639
Intuitive Surgical	10	$1,335
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	7	$1,000
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	28	$804
AbbVie	17	$666
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	32	$564
Merck	26	$543
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	21	$399
Novartis	21	$389
Boston Scientific	5	$389
Amgen	23	$383
Seagen Inc.	16	$286
Genentech USA, Inc.	16	$264
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$249
TELA Bio, Inc.	3	$244
Octapharma USA, Inc.	11	$226
Bayer	12	$215
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	12	$193
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	8	$183
Eisai Inc.	10	$176
Wound Management Technologies, Inc	1	$144
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$143
Incyte Corporation	7	$140
Acell, Inc.	1	$119
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	6	$110
Lilly USA, LLC	8	$108
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$107
Pfizer	6	$105
Sanofi	5	$95
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	5	$94
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	4	$94
GSK	5	$91
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	6	$90
Sobi, Inc	3	$80
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	1	$79
Exelixis Inc.	4	$72
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	4	$71
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	4	$68
CSL Behring	2	$61
Medtronic	3	$59
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	3	$58
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$47
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	2	$46
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$43
Dova Pharmaceuticals	2	$42
Bristol Myers Squibb	3	$41
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$41
Novocure Inc.	2	$38
Immunogen, Inc.	2	$37
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$33
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	2	$32
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$31
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$31
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	2	$29
Array Biopharma Inc	2	$24
Gilead	1	$23
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$22
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	1	$22
Telix Pharmaceuticals	1	$21
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$20

How this compares

$12,913 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 28 general surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$139,038

Medicare patients

175

Services billed

694

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 general surgery in Birmingham

Stanley HewlettBirmingham$97K
Kayellen WilloughbyBirmingham$4K
Lee SchmittBirmingham$3K
Xin HuangBirmingham$909
Andrea GillisBirmingham$552
Lacey SwensonBirmingham$540
April MadduxBirmingham$355
Nathan ManleyBirmingham$0
Quince-Xhosa GibsonBirmingham$0
Omar RokayakBirmingham$0

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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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