Steven Thom, MD
Ophthalmology · Fergus Falls, MNNPI 1063434637
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $27.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$476
- AbbVie$397
- Glaukos Corporation$218
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$197
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$160
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$146
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,40389%
- Education$30611%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 14 | $476 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $397 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 3 | $218 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $197 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $146 |
| The Cameron-ehlen Group, Inc. | 3 | $144 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $120 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $118 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $77 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $56 |
| Novartis | 3 | $51 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Tecnis IOL$366
- Clareon PanOptix Pro$196
- IACCESS$175
- iStent inject W$175
- TECNIS Presbyopia-Correcting IOLs$124
- HEALON PRO$122
- Tecnis Simplicity$122
How this compares
$2,709 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 330 ophthalmology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 236 | $86,383 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 78 | $57,396 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 95 | $39,928 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 107 | $29,900 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 26 | $19,004 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 119 | $16,388 |
| Latanoprost | 516 | $8,459 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 217 | $7,671 |
| Cyclosporine | 14 | $6,639 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 18 | $5,462 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 30 | $4,468 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 12 | $3,931 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 173 | $3,072 |
| Timolol Maleate | 88 | $2,912 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 127 | $2,793 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Combigan | $397 | $173,679421 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa | $146 | $43,860107 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $24 | $19,00426 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $476 | $5,46218 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 75th percentile of 330 ophthalmology providers in Minnesota.
Other ophthalmology in Fergus Falls
- Edwin RyanMinneapolis$9.6M
- Richard LindstromBloomington$9M
- Mark LobanoffSt Louis Park$7M
- Robert MittraMinneapolis$5.1M
- David ParkeMinneapolis$4.5M
- Yun-Sen ChuBloomington$1.7M
- Deborah RistvedtAlexandria$1.3M
- John DaviesMinneapolis$1.3M
- Sundeep DevMinneapolis$673K
- Jeffrey FischerWillmar$507K
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.