Has Thomas Allen received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,481 in general payments to Thomas Allen across 713 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Thomas Allen did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Thomas Allen come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Thomas Allen

Internal Medicine · Kansas City, MONPI 1801854294

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,481in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 713 payments — averaging $14.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Lilly USA, LLC$1K
Novo Nordisk$993
Amgen$833
AstraZeneca$637
Merck$539
plus $5K from 47 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1001%
Food & beverage$10,36199%
Education$200%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	100	$1,383
Lilly USA, LLC	69	$1,105
Novo Nordisk	77	$993
Amgen(2 entities)	58	$833
AstraZeneca	44	$637
Merck	42	$539
Abbott	23	$491
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	30	$435
Pfizer	34	$423
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	25	$346
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	17	$301
Boehringer Ingelheim	19	$294
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	18	$235
Bayer	13	$223
Mylan Specialty L.p.	10	$161
GSK	11	$157
Johnson & Johnson	10	$147
Novartis	11	$143
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$125
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	9	$124
Eisai Inc.	7	$111
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	7	$104
Comsort, Inc	1	$100
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	6	$86
Astellas Pharma US Inc	5	$78
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	4	$78
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	4	$69
Boston Scientific	3	$63
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$63
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$57
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$51
Nevro Corp.	2	$49
Neurelis, Inc.	2	$45
Antares Pharma, Inc.	3	$43
Genentech USA, Inc.	3	$39
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$37
Mannkind Corporation	2	$34
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	2	$31
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$25
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$25
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$23
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$22
Viiv Healthcare Company	1	$19
Optos, Inc.	1	$18
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	1	$15
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	1	$14
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	1	$14
Clarus Therapeutics Inc.	2	$13
Exact Sciences	1	$13
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$11
Circassia Inc.	1	$11
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	2	$7

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.

SIVEXTRO$100

How this compares

$10,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Potassium Chloride	15	$634
Atorvastatin Calcium	23	$205
Tamsulosin Hcl	15	$144
Allopurinol	15	$125
Gabapentin	12	$74
Alendronate Sodium	12	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other internal medicine in Kansas City

Craig DietzKansas City$4M
Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
Kevin SuttmoellerKansas City$198K
Karla Houston-GrayKansas City$24K
Timothy SmithSaint Peters$21.4M
Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
David PrelutskySaint Louis$575K
Danish JabbarSaint Louis$510K

See the full list for Missouri →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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