Braden Thomas
Hepatology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1215515473
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,775 of the $4,521 with a category attached, or 83.5%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 42.8% of the total.
Across 79 payments — averaging $57.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$1K
- Gilead$336
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$235
- AbbVie$190
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$157
- plus $579 from 15 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $4145.14 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$25K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$74616%
- Food & beverage$3,77584%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,936 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 20 | $1,087 |
| Gilead | 10 | $336 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $235 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $190 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $157 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $138 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $49 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$1,859
- REZDIFFRA$639
- Epclusa$125
- Livdelzi$118
- TERLIVAZ$109
How this compares
Too few hepatology providers in Marylandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other hepatology in Baltimore
- Sasan SakianiBaltimore$22K
- Kristin LescalleetBaltimore$7K
- Jose Russe RusseBaltimore$5K
- Ameer AbutalebBaltimore$3K
- Filipa LigeiroBaltimore$18
- Yaron RotmanBethesda$1K
- Jay HoofnagleBethesda$17
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.