Has Joseph Thomas received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $89,428 in general payments to Joseph Thomas across 807 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joseph Thomas did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Joseph Thomas come from?

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.

Joseph Thomas

Cardiovascular Disease · Torrance, CANPI 1568641660

Payments from drug & device makers

$89,428in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 807 payments — averaging $110.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

M.a. Med Alliance S.A.$35K
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$10K
Bayer$10K
Abbott$7K
Medtronic$6K
Boston Scientific$5K
plus $16K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,29530%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,15018%
Grants$3501%
Travel & lodging$1,7224%
Food & beverage$20,58047%
Gifts$370%

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
M.a. Med Alliance S.A.	7	$35,180
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	8	$10,366
Bayer	8	$10,113
Abbott	89	$6,557
Medtronic(2 entities)	292	$6,450
Boston Scientific	215	$5,012
Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.	1	$3,300
Datascope Corp.	4	$2,878
CSL Behring	2	$2,275
Shockwave Medical, Inc	13	$1,230
Abiomed	28	$1,084
AOP Health US, LLC	2	$839
Edwards Lifesciences	5	$468
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$450
Pfizer	23	$436
Johnson & Johnson	11	$353
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	15	$315
Novartis	12	$261
Amgen	8	$231
AstraZeneca	6	$224
Philips North America LLC	7	$154
Chiesi USA, Inc.	8	$127
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$125
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$109
Terumo Medical Corporation	3	$105
Astellas Pharma US Inc	5	$103
Teleflex LLC	5	$99
Heartflow, Inc.	2	$98
Novo Nordisk	5	$85
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$59
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	3	$59
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	1	$49
Z-medica, LLC	1	$46
Invivyd Inc	1	$31
Ardelyx, Inc.	1	$30
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$23
Merck	1	$19
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	1	$19
GE HealthCare	1	$17
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$16
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.	1	$16
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$15

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.

CARDIOSAVE HYBRID, TYPE B PLUG$9,303
XIENCE SIERRA$4,000
CARDIOSAVE$3,869
ROTAFLOW$3,300
Micra$2,172
Rapiblyk$1,679
Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,028
Product in Development$450
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$388
COROFLOW$363
ELUVIA$175
GENERAL - THERAPIES$175
AVVIGO Guidance System$161
RESONATE$150
WATCHMAN Access System$150
MitraClip$143
EMBLEM$140
Impella$137
AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$134
Xience Sierra Coronary Stent$127

How this compares

$89,428 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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William FrenchTorrance$2.2M
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Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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