Has Craig Thomas, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,658 in general payments to Craig Thomas, MD across 22 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Craig Thomas, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Craig Thomas, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Craig Thomas, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Glenn Dale, MDNPI 1710985452

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,658in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $75.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$1K
Exactech, Inc.$183
Abbott$160
Avanos Medical$140
Atricure, Inc.$49
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$43
plus $46 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$835%
Food & beverage$1,57595%

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
Smith+Nephew	11	$1,037
Exactech, Inc.	1	$183
Abbott	2	$160
Avanos Medical	2	$140
Atricure, Inc.	1	$49
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$43
Lupin Inc.	2	$34
Medacta USA, 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.

How this compares

$1,658 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$91,233

Medicare patients

188

Services billed

2,958

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
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	101	$2,510
Celecoxib	55	$1,010
Methylprednisolone	44	$381
Mupirocin	30	$286
Oxycodone Hcl	44	$187
Tramadol Hcl	18	$45

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Glenn Dale

Mark MyersonBaltimore$10.5M
David DaluryTowson$8.1M
Anand MurthiBaltimore$5.4M
Timothy CoddTowson$3.7M
Khaled KebaishBaltimore$3.5M
Hamid HassanzadehBethesda$2M
Michael AinLutherville$1.6M
Paul SponsellerBaltimore$1.5M
Shawn StandardBaltimore$1.4M
Ronald DelanoisBaltimore$1.2M

See the full list for Maryland →

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.

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