RxDoctor Payments Data

Jin Lo Tomblin, PA

Surgical · Spokane, WANPI 1356315808

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (51.1%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,233, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2022. Among surgical clinicians in WA 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.

$20,729in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $406.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$20K
  • Getinge USA Sales, LLC$279
  • Abiomed$225
  • Medtronic$144
  • Abbott$129
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$128
  • plus $181 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,00010%
  • Travel & lodging$6,28030%
  • Food & beverage$1,8499%
  • Education$10,60051%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Intuitive Surgical34$19,644
Getinge USA Sales, LLC7$279
Abiomed2$225
Medtronic1$144
Abbott1$129
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.1$128
Sawtooth Surgical Solutions Inc1$93
Atricure, Inc.2$44
Zimmer Biomet1$27
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.1$16

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

$20,729 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 404 surgical providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,168
Medicare patients
45
Services billed
77

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Oxycodone Hcl16$73
Metoprolol Tartrate13$55
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate12$42
Potassium Chloride14$40
Furosemide15$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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