Ernesto Esteban De la Torre II, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

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.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Harris Regional Hospital Hospital · Sylva, NC
• Pardee Hospital Henderson County Hospital · Hendersonville, NC · listed as Henderson County Hospital Corp

Colleagues at Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 154 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Bhaskari Burra, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Asheville, NC
• Aimee Adams Feste, CNM Advanced Practice Midwife · Asheville, NC
• Kontia Jontae Grant, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Asheville, NC
• Anne Elizabeth Greene, LCSW Clinical Social Worker · Asheville, NC
• Lisa Marie Jernigan, MD Family Medicine Physician · Canton, NC
• Ivan Petrovych Lazar, DO Family Medicine Physician · Asheville, NC
• Mary Amanda Murphy, CNM-MSN Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Asheville, NC
• Patricia Mae Engel Overcarsh, MD, MPH Gynecology Physician · Asheville, NC
• Geoffrey Siegel Raine, LCSW Clinical Social Worker · Asheville, NC
• Dr. Nathan O'Neal Spell III, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Asheville, NC
• Anne Elizabeth Wainer, MSS, LCSWA Clinical Social Worker · Asheville, NC
• Dr. Winfield Strickland Word-Sims, MD Nephrology Physician · Asheville, NC

Other providers in Cullowhee

• Dr. Julia Stacy Hartley, DO

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1851520050

  1 Bird Ln, Cullowhee, NC 28723 · (828) 227-7640

• Dr. Timothy Lynn Johnston, DO

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1477521102

  315 Wike Cemetery Rd, Cullowhee, NC 28723-9550 · (828) 293-0503

• Timothy Lynn Johnston DO PA

  Organization Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1770505653

  315 Wike Cemetery Rd, Cullowhee, NC 28723-9550 · (828) 293-0503

• James Winston Truett Jr., MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1952544249

  1 University Dr, Cullowhee, NC 28723-9646 · (828) 227-7640