Thomas Bobka, MD
Vascular Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1649613894
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $37.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$618
- Medtronic$603
- Abbott$586
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$337
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$245
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$223
- plus $1K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,90298%
- Other$662%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 11 | $618 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $603 |
| Abbott | 30 | $586 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $337 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $245 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $223 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $191 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $142 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $83 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $70 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $66 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Stryker | 3 | $55 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $47 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Surgenex LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 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.
- Indigo System$285
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$279
- IN.PACT AV$165
- RUBY Coil$154
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$152
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$152
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$152
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$152
- GENTRIX$151
- Abre$128
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$126
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$124
- HawkOne$103
How this compares
$3,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 105 vascular surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $10,922 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $206 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Tucson
- Joshua BaldermanTucson$354K
- Wei ZhouTucson$220K
- Joseph SabatTucson$140K
- John PacanowskiTucson$85K
- Craig WeinkaufTucson$73K
- Bernardo MendozaTucson$33K
- Federico YanquezTucson$31K
- Christopher ComptonTucson$27K
- Matthew NamannyTucson$25K
- Lauren BeliveauTucson$24K
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.