Question 1

Has John Tomasula, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,482 in general payments to John Tomasula, MD across 22 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean John Tomasula, MD did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about John Tomasula, MD come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$1,805
Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.	2	$143
Merck	6	$104
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$95
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$86
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	2	$57
BD	2	$39
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$39
Boston Scientific	1	$34
Venturemed Group, Inc.	1	$30
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	1	$21
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$16
Medtronic	1	$12

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