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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,069 in general payments to Thomas Heil, MD across 162 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 Heil, 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 Heil, 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 Heil, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1326001256

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,069in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $31.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Medtronic$1K
Abbott$316
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$152
MML US, Inc.$130
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$113
plus $445 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3838%
Food & beverage$4,67392%
Education$130%

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
Boston Scientific	51	$2,841
Medtronic(2 entities)	65	$1,073
Abbott	6	$316
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$152
MML US, Inc.	2	$130
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$113
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$81
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$77
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$43
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$41
Pfizer	2	$36
Amgen	2	$28
Curonix LLC	2	$28
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$27
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$25
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	2	$23
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$21
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$15

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

$5,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$160,829

Medicare patients

167

Services billed

2,017

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	884	$30,644
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe	11	$8,578
Naloxone Hcl	83	$4,367
Gabapentin	225	$3,883
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	115	$3,605
Pregabalin	143	$2,991
Methocarbamol	147	$2,797
Tizanidine Hcl	90	$1,398
Tramadol Hcl	125	$1,360
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	74	$1,312
Lidocaine	15	$996
Baclofen	56	$995
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	19	$898
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	60	$787
Oxycodone Hcl	36	$603

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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