Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.

Rian Kenneth Thornton

Individual provider Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1255975389

Rian Kenneth Thornton is a Nurse Practitioner in Weaverville, North Carolina. Qualified in 2019, 7 years ago. Practices with East Jefferson Physicians Group LLC, a 211-clinician group, works from 5 locations, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in North Carolina.

Years since qualifying
7
Licensed in
NC
In the registry since
2019

Practice location Address checks out

179 N Buncombe School Rd Ste 102
Weaverville, NC 28787-9699
Phone: (828) 645-3100
Fax: (828) 658-3254
Show map & directions

Pin is approximate — placed at the ZIP-code centre, not the exact door.

Additional practice locations (4)

  • 21 Hospital Dr Fl 4, Asheville, NC 28801-4550 — (908) 249-8357
  • 20 Medical Park Dr Ste B, Asheville, NC 28803-2493 — (828) 254-8232
  • 600 Hospital Dr Ste 10b, Clyde, NC 28721-8024 — (828) 456-5214
  • 50 Hospital Dr Ste 4b, Hendersonville, NC 28792-5246 — (828) 681-2917

Specialties & licences

Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (primary) Taxonomy 363LA2100X · Licence 5012630 (NC)

Record details

NPI number1255975389
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedNovember 1, 2019
Last updated in NPPESOctober 3, 2023
Certification dateOctober 3, 2023

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyNURSE PRACTITIONER
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2019 (7 years in practice)
Group practice East Jefferson Physicians Group Llc — 211 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients155
Services billed 305 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

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.

Food and Beverage $2,268 52 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Education $173 2 payments · educational material or training, not a fee

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. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at East Jefferson Physicians Group LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 211 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.