Elizabeth Thomas, DO
Transplant Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1760663462
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (32.8%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,200 and has fallen 73.7% since, to $842 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $182.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Abbott$225
- Abiomed$166
- Johnson & Johnson$58
- Organ Recovery Systems, Inc.$39
- Baxter Healthcare$36
Across 2 payments — averaging $357.50 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$715
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00022%
- Travel & lodging$1,28828%
- Food & beverage$78217%
- Education$1,50033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $4,046 |
| Abbott | 2 | $225 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $166 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $58 |
| Organ Recovery Systems, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $36 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,182
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- Impella$166
- ENSITE PRECISION$153
How this compares
$4,570 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 70 transplant surgery providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 19 | $3,260 |
| Easy Touch Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic | 24 | $618 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 14 | $143 |
| Carvedilol | 22 | $113 |
| Prednisone | 35 | $90 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 32 | $70 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 24 | $64 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 21 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other transplant surgery in San Antonio
- Colleen JaySan Antonio$15K
- Lokesh BathlaSan Antonio$11K
- Luke ShenSan Antonio$5K
- Eric TreatSan Antonio$2K
- Sidharth SharmaSan Antonio$1K
- Francisco CigarroaSan Antonio$563
- Nassir ThaljiSan Antonio$512
- Preston FosterSan Antonio$491
- Asish MisraSan Antonio$358
- Jonathan CullenSan Antonio$302
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.