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Robert Thomas, MD

Internal Medicine · Walterboro, SCNPI 1750351508

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,156in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 546 payments — averaging $24.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1K
  • GSK$1K
  • Insmed, Inc.$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$971
  • Grifols USA, LLC$875
  • plus $6K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$12,45895%
  • Education$6985%

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

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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.

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

$13,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$373,376
Medicare patients
522
Services billed
3,824

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter609$527,415
WakixPitolisant Hcl35$354,385
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol247$215,858
OfevNintedanib Esylate13$169,663
Aralast NpAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor14$154,043
EliquisApixaban96$91,637
OzempicSemaglutide66$66,480
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol98$58,807
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol73$56,476
MounjaroTirzepatide43$54,596
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl66$50,127
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$48,892
XareltoRivaroxaban45$47,887
LinzessLinaclotide48$45,320
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate24$33,021

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$1,182$611,922749 claims
Harmony Biosciences LLCWakix$335$354,38535 claims
Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Stiolto Respimat, Jardiance, Combivent Respimat, Spiriva Respimat$834$307,038179 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga, Symbicort, Airsupra$1,836$305,822416 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$13$92,66282 claims
PfizerEliquis$109$91,63796 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$111$79,65971 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$971$47,88745 claims
AbbVieLinzess$70$45,32048 claims
MerckJanuvia, Dulera, Belsomra$15$42,92947 claims
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.Sunosi$530$28,06822 claims
NovartisEntresto$156$24,37528 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 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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