Rita Thomas
Family · Austin, TXNPI 1518190867
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 358 payments — averaging $21.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$573
- Boehringer Ingelheim$517
- Convatec Inc.$513
- Novo Nordisk$481
- Corcept Therapeutics$459
- plus $4K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,23095%
- Education$3455%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 40 | $1,379 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 34 | $573 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $517 |
| Convatec Inc. | 18 | $513 |
| Novo Nordisk | 25 | $481 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 28 | $459 |
| AbbVie | 46 | $447 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 16 | $395 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $361 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $255 |
| GSK | 17 | $237 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $233 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $219 |
| Exact Sciences | 9 | $187 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 7 | $176 |
| Bayer | 14 | $153 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $125 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Amgen | 5 | $92 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 3 | $62 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Abbott | 2 | $40 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Exeltis, USA 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.
How this compares
$7,575 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 81 | $98,377 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 80 | $91,714 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 63 | $72,311 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 30 | $33,537 |
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $23,424 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 17 | $18,207 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 13 | $16,866 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 95 | $2,744 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 193 | $2,215 |
| Gabapentin | 110 | $2,186 |
| Ezetimibe | 64 | $2,129 |
| Omeprazole | 119 | $2,031 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 22 | $1,957 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 159 | $1,629 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 133 | $1,498 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $517 | $98,37781 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,379 | $91,71480 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $481 | $72,31163 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $573 | $35,07230 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $237 | $33,53730 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $219 | $23,42419 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $447 | $1,00114 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
Other family in Austin
- Nirupama JeromeAustin$418K
- Jean ChenAustin$176K
- Monique MulvanyAustin$142K
- Barry HughesAustin$51K
- Eric PerezAustin$42K
- Chelsea CrillyAustin$36K
- Alexandra RossiAustin$35K
- Angelina DetmersAustin$33K
- Lashonda CraneHouston$3.4M
- David WeirDallas$959K
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.