Dr. Donald T Buckner Jr., MD

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at Blue Ridge Community Health Services, Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 94 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Emily Faith Campbell, DO Family Medicine Physician · Bryson City, NC
• Londyn V Conner, PA-C, CAQ-PSYCH Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Sylva, NC
• Michelle K Cooper, PHD, HSPP, LCAS, CCS Health Service Psychologist · Sylva, NC
• Brittany Pierce Hipkins, MD Family Medicine Physician · Sylva, NC
• Laura P Lam, PMHNP-BC Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Waynesville, NC
• Taylor Wray Ludwig, LCSW, LCAS, CCS, RYT Clinical Social Worker · Hendersonville, NC
• Megan McCraw, LCSW, LCAS Clinical Social Worker · Hendersonville, NC
• Robert Nieland, DO Family Medicine Physician · Hendersonville, NC
• Dr. Jessica Smith Pior, MD Family Medicine Physician · Clyde, NC
• Matthew Roe, MD Family Medicine Physician · Asheville, NC
• Glenn Warpula, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC Registered Nurse · Waynesville, NC
• Rivers Woodward, MD Family Medicine Physician · Lake Lure, NC