Alicia Thomas, MD
Surgery · Greensboro, NCNPI 1528280898
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,750 of the $11,558 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,171, more than ten times the $205 reported in 2019.
Across 47 payments — averaging $245.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Medtronic$234
- Johnson & Johnson$192
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$82
- Merck$73
- Smith+Nephew$62
- plus $277 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,23319%
- Food & beverage$1,56614%
- Education$7,75067%
- Gifts$90%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 15 | $10,637 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $234 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $192 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $82 |
| Merck | 3 | $73 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $46 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $29 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$10,264
How this compares
$11,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin Sulfate | 20 | $110 |
| Metronidazole | 38 | $107 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $89 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Greensboro
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- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Paul EnochsCary$595K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- William HopeWilmington$350K
- Martyn KnowlesRaleigh$311K
- Walter BoydGreenville$311K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$304K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.