Christopher Tomaras
Neurological Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1881780633
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,524,665 of the $1,543,139 with a category attached, or 98.8%. Globus Medical accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $458,919, more than ten times the $5,651 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 80 payments — averaging $19,289 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1.5M
- Mirus, LLC$1K
- Medtronic$400
- Boston Scientific$273
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$199
- Baxter Healthcare$135
- plus $599 from 11 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $160.00 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.
- Medtronic$160
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,524,66599%
- Consulting fees$1,2500%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,3441%
- Travel & lodging$2,0410%
- Food & beverage$1,8390%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 43 | $1,540,283 |
| Mirus, LLC | 1 | $1,250 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $400 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $273 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $199 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $135 |
| Renovis Surgical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 2 | $81 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $71 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Stryker | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 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.
- Sable$1,451,203
- VIP SYSTEM$70,180
- RISE-L$6,844
- EXCELSIUS$4,000
- VIP$3,282
- Excelsius - GPS$2,500
- Excelsius Robotics System$2,041
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$1,250
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$1,250
- Intracept$291
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$180
- INTELLIS$136
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$119
How this compares
$1,543,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $788 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $168 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Atlanta
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
- Michele JohnsonAtlanta$540K
- David McCrackenAtlanta$425K
- Robert GrossAtlanta$315K
- Kaveh KhajaviAtlanta$225K
- Joshua WewelAtlanta$114K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.