Thomas Chow, MD
Surgery · Orangeburg, SCNPI 1205017696
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,000 of the $10,533 with a category attached, or 75.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.3% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,412 and has fallen 94.0% since, to $442 in 2025.
Across 79 payments — averaging $133.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$264
- Innovation Technologies Inc$207
- Smith+Nephew$128
- Conmed Corporation$114
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$72
- plus $551 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2753%
- Food & beverage$2,25921%
- Education$8,00076%
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 | 29 | $9,197 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $264 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $207 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $128 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $114 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 3 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $61 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $37 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $28 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,490
- Irrisept$189
- OviTex 2S$144
How this compares
$10,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 19 | $158 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 20 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Orangeburg
- Dion FrangaOrangeburg$28K
- Mauricio BassanteOrangeburg$19K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- Steven KahnCharleston$197K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- William CobbGreenville$159K
- Steven LauzonSumter$143K
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.