Eric Thomas, MD
Surgery · Peoria, AZNPI 1073584470
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $132,713 of the $149,084 with a category attached, or 89.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in AZ 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 149 payments — averaging $1000.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$147K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$209
- Davol Inc.$201
- Medtronic$69
- Johnson & Johnson$53
- plus $100 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0003%
- Travel & lodging$4,9403%
- Food & beverage$7,3975%
- Education$132,71389%
- Gifts$340%
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 | 128 | $147,105 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,347 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 3 | $209 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $201 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $69 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $53 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| THD America, 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$144,411
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,291
- Phasix Mesh$155
- PHASIX$153
How this compares
$149,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 614 surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 49 | $264 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 47 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Peoria
- Brian PrebilPeoria$91K
- Hadi NajafianSun City$1.6M
- Conrad BallecerPhoenix$893K
- Jennifer PrestonPhoenix$320K
- Ramon MoureloCasa Grande$317K
- Simon LavotshkinYuma$309K
- Morgan CriggerPhoenix$235K
- Ryan PinnellGlendale$225K
- Vikram DekaPhoenix$154K
- Rifat LatifiTucson$144K
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.