William Forrest Carson, MD

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.

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.

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.

• Angel Medical Center Hospital · Franklin, NC
• Highlands Cashiers Hospital Hospital · Highlands, NC · listed as Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
• Transylvania Regional Hospital, Inc Hospital · Brevard, NC · listed as Mh Transylvania Regional Hospital, LLLP
• Watauga Medical Center Hospital · Boone, NC · listed as Watauga Medical Center, Inc
• Memorial Mission Hospital And Asheville Surgery Ce Hospital · Asheville, NC

Colleagues at Dlp Western Carolina Physician Practices LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 175 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Jonathan P Dean, MD Surgery Physician · Sylva, NC
• Colby Trenton Finch Physician Assistant · Paris, TN
• Dr. Najeeb Omar Ghaussy, MD Rheumatology Physician · Clyde, NC
• Jay Weston Grosse, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Clyde, NC
• Dr. Brian E Haycook, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Clyde, NC
• MS. Katherine Carpenter Hefner, FNP-C Nurse Practitioner · Sylva, NC
• Tammy Jernigan Johnston, MD Family Medicine Physician · Bryson City, NC
• Naga Pannala, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Midfield, AL
• Rachel Ellen Picher, CNM Advanced Practice Midwife · Asheville, NC
• Jessica Paige Preslar, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Atlanta, GA
• Angela Riccio, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Franklin, NC
• Jessica Rene Loring Warsch, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Asheville, NC

Other providers in Asheville

• Ara Health Specialists PA

  Organization Body Imaging Physician · NPI 1164474094

  534 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-4612 · (828) 213-8162

• Asheville Imaging LLP

  Organization Body Imaging Physician · NPI 1295788974

  534 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-4612 · (828) 213-0801

• Jordan Mae Burner, MD

  Individual Body Imaging Physician · NPI 1477917888

  PO Box 2959, Asheville, NC 28802-2959 · (828) 693-2058