John Thomas, MD
Neurological Surgery · Wilmington, NCNPI 1780835769
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 928 payments — averaging $2561.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2.3M
- Trackx Technology, Inc.$24K
- Medtronic$1K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$747
- Boston Scientific$697
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$378
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,205,13268%
- Consulting fees$454,12025%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,2001%
- Travel & lodging$97,2045%
- Food & beverage$16,7511%
- Education$2130%
- Entertainment$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 781 | $2,347,243 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 17 | $24,493 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $1,249 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 4 | $747 |
| Boston Scientific | 24 | $697 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 5 | $378 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $345 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $218 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $205 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $182 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $148 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 8 | $147 |
| Abbott | 5 | $136 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $118 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $116 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $110 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $105 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $85 |
| Stryker | 1 | $49 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 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.
- Modulus$767,932
- ALIF$454,397
- XLIF$245,294
- Pulse$221,037
- ELSA$33,168
- Excelsius - GPS$27,298
- TrackX$10,652
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$9,600
- TLIF$8,700
- Bendini$8,250
- DuraPro$3,300
- RISE$2,212
- PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$2,100
- INSTRUMENTS$1,400
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$981
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$311
- NVM5$300
- INDEPENDENCE$288
- PuraPly$182
- Direct Look$152
How this compares
$2,377,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 16 | $144 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Wilmington
- Jeffrey BeecherWilmington$176K
- Justin CappuzzoWilmington$39K
- Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
- Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
- Domagoj CoricCharlotte$4.1M
- Kimberly LivingstonRaleigh$3.4M
- Paul KimCharlotte$1.8M
- Alexander PowersKernersville$1.7M
- Vibhor KrishnaChapel Hill$1.6M
- Charles BranchAdvance$1.6M
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.