Thomas Barnett, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (45.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.1% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,801, more than ten times the $264 reported in 2019.
Across 74 payments — averaging $73.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$337
- Davol Inc.$303
- Smith+Nephew$137
- AbbVie$133
- Baxter Healthcare$116
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76314%
- Food & beverage$2,18140%
- Education$2,50046%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $3,379 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $337 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $303 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $137 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $133 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $116 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $109 |
| Abbott | 1 | $100 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $54 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $51 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $41 |
| BD | 1 | $37 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Organon | 1 | $22 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$732
- Signia$313
- Phasix Mesh$303
- Axium INS DRG IPG$100
How this compares
$5,444 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 89 surgery providers in Delaware.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 13 | $1,738 |
| Omeprazole | 33 | $320 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $179 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 24 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Dover
- Lydell LettsomeDover$32K
- Barath KrishnanDover$15K
- Mridul PansariDover$6K
- Theodoros KatsichtisDover$5K
- John MitchellDover$4K
- Rahul SinghDover$3K
- Amber JacobsonDover$2K
- Brandt FeuersteinDover$1K
- Radu NedelcoviciuDover$1K
- Nasrin AnsariDover$885
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.