George Thomas, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Rockford, ILNPI 1861836033
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,572 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $360 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 163 payments — averaging $52.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$7K
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$219
- Pfizer$212
- Bayer$206
- Novartis$198
- AstraZeneca$140
- plus $848 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,25050%
- Travel & lodging$92611%
- Food & beverage$3,25338%
- Education$1241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 77 | $6,730 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 6 | $219 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $212 |
| Bayer | 6 | $206 |
| Novartis | 14 | $198 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $140 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $105 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 5 | $89 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $88 |
| GSK | 4 | $85 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $81 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Amgen | 2 | $51 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$8,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 281 critical care medicine providers in Illinois.
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.
Other critical care medicine in Rockford
- Samridhi GulatiRockford$5K
- Brian ReichardtO Fallon$892K
- Michael CutticaChicago$402K
- Daniel DillingMaywood$208K
- Israel RubinsteinChicago$107K
- John RickelmanQuincy$90K
- Abbas Al-QamariChicago$40K
- Husam NayefPalos Park$24K
- Nureain MirzaOak Lawn$22K
- Edward GarrityBurr Ridge$20K
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.