Has William Yorns received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,144 in general payments to William Yorns across 202 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 Yorns 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 Yorns 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 Yorns

Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Danbury, CTNPI 1538357892

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $13,550 of the $19,144 with a category attached, or 70.8%. Tris Pharma Inc accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 34 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,632 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $301 in 2024.

$19,144in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 202 payments — averaging $94.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Tris Pharma Inc$13K
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
SK Life Science, Inc.$1K
UCB, Inc.$242
Biogen$231
Sanofi$152
plus $1K from 29 others

$12,075in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $6037.50 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.

UCB Biosciences Inc.$12K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$13,55071%
Travel & lodging$1,5738%
Food & beverage$4,00121%
Gifts$200%

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
Tris Pharma Inc	31	$12,791
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	14	$3,374
SK Life Science, Inc.	39	$1,203
UCB, Inc.	13	$242
Biogen	14	$231
Sanofi	8	$152
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	22	$119
Lundbeck LLC	5	$84
EMD Serono, Inc.	5	$75
Eisai Inc.	3	$72
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$71
Grifols USA, LLC	4	$70
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$63
Novartis	5	$62
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	2	$58
Lilly USA, LLC	3	$47
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$40
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$39
CSL Behring	2	$33
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$29
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$26
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$25
Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p.	2	$25
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$24
Amgen	2	$23
AstraZeneca	1	$22
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$20
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$18
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$18
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	1	$18
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$16
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
Strongbridge US Inc.	1	$11

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.

Dyanavel XR$12,182
OXTELLAR XR$3,100
XCOPRI$239
QELBREE$119

How this compares

$19,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 28 neurology with special qualifications in child neurology providers in Connecticut.

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Other neurology with special qualifications in child neurology in Danbury

Jong RhoNew Haven$55K
Susan LevyGuilford$38K
Francine TestaGuilford$38K
Alok BhargavaFarmington$27K
Azimuddin KaziStratford$16K
Cristian IonitaHartford$15K
Jennifer Madan CohenHartford$10K
Amanda PongStamford$10K
Lauren Beslow KayeNew Haven$5K
David MandelbaumNew Haven$2K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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