Thom Loree, MD
Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1215927330
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (45.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Senseonics, Incorporated at 45.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,936 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $422 in 2025.
Across 29 payments — averaging $235.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Senseonics, Incorporated$3K
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$433
- Innovation Technologies Inc$296
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$249
- Abbott$221
- plus $832 from 8 others
Across 69 payments — averaging $14,513 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$1M
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,12046%
- Travel & lodging$1,52822%
- Food & beverage$2,17032%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senseonics, Incorporated | 7 | $3,120 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $1,666 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $433 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $296 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $249 |
| Abbott | 2 | $221 |
| Axogen | 1 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $147 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $137 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $136 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $125 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Eversense$3,120
- Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$1,528
- INTEGRA$620
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$440
- Irrisept$296
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$249
- OviTex 2S$174
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$150
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$147
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$147
- PROCLAIM$146
- ALLODERM$137
- GRAFIX PL$136
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$129
- Inspire$126
- OMNIGRAFT$126
- SURGIMEND$126
- Da Vinci Surgical System$125
- PRIMATRIX$123
- Ovitex$116
How this compares
$6,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 42 | $344 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Buffalo
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
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.