Thomas Faull, DO
Pain Medicine · Madison, WINPI 1497910319
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $29,268 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $1,665 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 291 payments — averaging $225.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$33K
- Abbott$14K
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$8K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$4K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$3K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,12512%
- Speaking & faculty fees$32,74150%
- Travel & lodging$8,63613%
- Food & beverage$15,80624%
- Education$790%
- Entertainment$3551%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 74 | $33,137 |
| Abbott | 112 | $13,713 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 30 | $7,739 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 19 | $3,539 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 23 | $3,469 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,848 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 9 | $903 |
| Stryker | 6 | $493 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $259 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $177 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $160 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $110 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $97 |
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.
- SYNCHROMEDII$23,014
- Proclaim DRG IPG$6,273
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$3,600
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$3,282
- SPRINT PNS System$3,088
- SYNCHROMED$2,250
- Proclaim IPG$2,171
- mild Device Kit$1,821
- Intracept$1,598
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,493
- PROCLAIM$1,415
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$1,125
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$499
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$340
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$318
- INTELLIS$307
- SPINEJACK$227
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$227
- ETERNA$218
- COOLIEF* COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY$153
How this compares
$65,743 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 82 pain medicine providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zonisamide | 21 | $605 |
| Gabapentin | 61 | $576 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 27 | $351 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $209 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $65 |
| Alprazolam | 11 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Madison
- Alaa Abd-ElsayedMadison$1.3M
- Frederick FreitagMadison$157K
- Jacob KraemerMadison$11K
- Kwadwo AchampongMadison$9K
- Michael GibsonMadison$8K
- Kathryn SlaughterMadison$7K
- Haroutiun HamzoianMadison$3K
- David BryceMadison$1K
- Larry MandersMadison$1K
- Michael JungWest Bend$339K
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.