Has Thomas Ellis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,686 in general payments to Thomas Ellis, MD across 60 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 Ellis, MD 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 Ellis, MD 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 Ellis, MD

Neurological Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1629004445

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,684 of the $3,686 with a category attached, or 72.8%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 59.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,807 and has fallen 68.3% since, to $572 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,746.

$3,686in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $61.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$2K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$489
Medtronic$108
NICO Corporation$92
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$89
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$87
plus $618 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$91125%
Food & beverage$2,68473%
Education$902%

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
Globus Medical	17	$2,201
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	9	$489
Medtronic	2	$108
NICO Corporation	1	$92
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$89
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$87
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$84
Stryker	2	$82
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$81
Baxter Healthcare	2	$75
Vertex	2	$54
Pfizer	3	$52
Nevro Corp.	2	$33
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$31
Theragen, Inc.	2	$27
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$25
Johnson & Johnson	1	$24
Medexus Pharma, Inc.	1	$19
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$16
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	1	$16

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.

How this compares

$3,686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$343,809

Medicare patients

258

Services billed

1,300

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
Gabapentin	290	$3,911
Pregabalin	131	$2,818
Celecoxib	26	$645
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	74	$589
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	68	$266
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$108
Levofloxacin	17	$79
Methylprednisolone	16	$70

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Fort Worth

Gregory SmithFort Worth$206K
Grant BooherFort Worth$167K
Brent AlfordFort Worth$143K
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
Douglas FoxAustin$948K
Richard MeyratDallas$883K
Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
Andrew RoeserHouston$660K

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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.

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