Aurea Thomas
Pediatrics · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1255701090
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 63 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among pediatrics clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 63 payments — averaging $21.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Indivior Inc.$203
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$197
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$133
- Merck$132
- AstraZeneca$118
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$109
- plus $464 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,357100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Indivior Inc. | 9 | $203 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $197 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $133 |
| Merck | 8 | $132 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $118 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 7 | $109 |
| GSK | 5 | $96 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $53 |
| Bayer | 2 | $45 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Braeburn Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pear Therapeutics (US), Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Athena Bioscience, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$1,357 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,058 pediatrics providers in Illinois.
Other pediatrics in Des Plaines
- Davida GerenaDes Plaines$9K
- Amy PallerChicago$1.2M
- Jan BergerChicago$886K
- Jonathan RobertsPeoria$588K
- Anita Chandra PuriChicago$367K
- Mindy SimpsonChicago$318K
- Anthony ManciniChicago$187K
- Patricia ChiamasChicago$155K
- Ruchi GuptaChicago$94K
- Loris RaynerEvergreen Park$46K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.