Phillip Thomas, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Edina, MNNPI 1437500261
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 204 payments — averaging $226.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$25K
- Smith+Nephew$7K
- Foundation Medical, LLC$6K
- Gemini Medical LLC$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Vericel Corporation$672
- plus $607 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6501%
- Grants$15,00033%
- Travel & lodging$7,53616%
- Food & beverage$7,89317%
- Education$15,02533%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 83 | $24,689 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $7,485 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 47 | $6,156 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 3 | $3,600 |
| Stryker | 42 | $2,895 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $672 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $449 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $117 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $20 |
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.
- SPATIAL FRAME$1,625
- FAST-FIX$1,120
- Q-FIX$1,120
- MACI$650
- MAKO$619
- NOVOSTITCH$505
- Biosure$505
- NOVOSTITCH PRO$270
- FAST-FIX FLEX$270
- BIOSURE REGENESORB$270
- ACUFEX Knee$270
- Meniscal Root Repair System$270
- NA$258
- TRIATHLON$195
- SALVATION$180
- NANOTACK FLEX$153
- CAP-FIX$152
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$146
- ICONIX$132
- INSIGNIA$100
How this compares
$46,104 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 42 | $117 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 18 | $64 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 34 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Edina
- Christopher LarsonEdina$553K
- Gregory LervickEdina$208K
- Leroy McCartyEdina$190K
- Scott AnsethEdina$175K
- Loren VorlickyEdina$153K
- Brian BjerkeEdina$149K
- Ryan HoelEdina$126K
- Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
- Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
- John SperlingRochester$13.5M
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.