Has Thomas Detar received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $471 in general payments to Thomas Detar across 11 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 Detar 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 Detar 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 Detar

Otolaryngology · Post Falls, IDNPI 1548265028

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 11 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Livanova USA, Inc. at 36.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $226 and has fallen 61.1% since, to $88 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for otolaryngology clinicians in ID, where the typical reported total is $471.

$471in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $42.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Livanova USA, Inc.$172
Intuitive Surgical$170
Acclarent, Inc$51
Stryker$36
Aerin Medical Inc.$23
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$19

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$471100%

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
Livanova USA, Inc.	4	$172
Intuitive Surgical	1	$170
Acclarent, Inc	1	$51
Stryker	2	$36
Aerin Medical Inc.	2	$23
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$19

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$170

How this compares

$471 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 40 otolaryngology providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$131,657

Medicare patients

417

Services billed

2,023

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
Ipratropium Bromide	110	$3,603
Fluticasone Propionate	103	$1,380
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	13	$1,205
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol	23	$1,117
Ofloxacin	22	$1,067
Cevimeline Hcl	11	$1,029
Azelastine Hcl	26	$686
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	19	$421
Levothyroxine Sodium	32	$327
Omeprazole	23	$239
Gabapentin	13	$220
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	23	$186
Montelukast Sodium	11	$172
Mupirocin	15	$118
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	25	$108

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.