Richard Thompson, MD
Surgery · Dickinson, NDNPI 1174962559
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,500 of the $4,115 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 72.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,101 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $265 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $87.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$259
- Medtronic$199
- Smith+Nephew$191
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$173
- Boston Scientific$79
- plus $248 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,61539%
- Education$2,50061%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $2,966 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 5 | $259 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $199 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $191 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $173 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $79 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $17 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$329
- LigaSure$128
How this compares
$4,115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 96 surgery providers in North Dakota.
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 | 27 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Dickinson
- Daaron McFieldFargo$48K
- Cody PrattGrand Forks$40K
- Dustin EvansMinot$27K
- Daphne DenhamFargo$25K
- Brandon HelblingBismarck$23K
- Joshua KnudsonBismarck$22K
- Donald DebeltzGrand Forks$16K
- Dustin NowotnyFargo$14K
- Breann NeigerGrand Forks$13K
- Rebecca SwensonBismarck$12K
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.