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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $222,421 in general payments to Craig Thompson, MD across 359 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 Thompson, 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 Thompson, 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 Thompson, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Hartford, CTNPI 1689601627

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.1% of the total. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in CT 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.

$222,421in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 359 payments — averaging $619.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$85K
Teleflex LLC$66K
Abbott$25K
Terumo Medical Corporation$17K
Abiomed$9K
Arrow International, Inc.$8K
plus $14K from 16 others

$459,376in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $4593.76 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.

Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$261K
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$90K
Shockwave Medical, Inc$63K
Abbott$45K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$107,33448%
Speaking & faculty fees$61,62528%
Travel & lodging$39,31018%
Food & beverage$14,1326%
Education$190%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	197	$84,815
Teleflex LLC	30	$65,671
Abbott	14	$24,704
Terumo Medical Corporation	19	$16,748
Abiomed	13	$8,803
Arrow International, Inc.	4	$7,965
Boston Scientific	39	$7,911
Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.	4	$2,814
Philips North America LLC	13	$863
Asahi Intecc CO., LTD.	2	$494
Edwards Lifesciences	6	$418
Biotronik Inc.	3	$260
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$244
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$184
Heartflow, Inc.	2	$173
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	2	$141
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$76
Johnson & Johnson	2	$39
Cardinal Health 200 LLC	1	$36
Cathworks, Inc.	1	$29
Acist Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$22
AstraZeneca	1	$11

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

$222,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 73 interventional cardiology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$35,548

Medicare patients

Services billed

194

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.

Other interventional cardiology in Hartford

Abdul QaziHartford$38K
Sarfaraz MemonHartford$30K
Boskey PatelHartford$20K
Joseph IngrassiaHartford$16K
Talhat AzemiHartford$12K
Bryan PiccirilloHartford$12K
Immad SadiqHartford$9K
Asad RizviHartford$5K
Daniel FramHartford$3K
Arslan MasoodHartford$3K

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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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