Theresa D Poepperling, CNM

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 Simmonds Martin and Helmbrecht LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 23 clinicians in the practice; 10 are shown here.

• Karen Gayman Brindle, CNM, MSN Advanced Practice Midwife · Damascus, MD
• Sherene Lynnell Broome, CNM Advanced Practice Midwife · Frederick, MD
• Chelsea Bullock, CNM Advanced Practice Midwife · Frederick, MD
• Brianna B Ford, LCSW-C Social Worker · Frederick, MD
• MS. Eva M Hill, LICSW Clinical Social Worker · Damascus, MD
• Allison Brooke Hoyt Registered Nurse · Gaithersburg, MD
• Dr. Armstrong Chukwunonso Ibe Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Damascus, MD
• Rochelle Virginia Johns, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Harrisonburg, VA
• Stephanie Payton-Petersen, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Damascus, MD
• Dr. Lima Lorren Redhead, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Damascus, MD

Other providers in Damascus

• MS. Tara Shannon Smith, CNM

  Individual Midwife · NPI 1285608703

  26005 Ridge Rd Ste 200, Damascus, MD 20872-1892 · (301) 414-2300