Thomas Hopkins
Anesthesiology · Alpine, TXNPI 1184881310
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $123,712 of the $177,603 with a category attached, or 69.7%. Medtronic accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $99,997 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $2,764 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in TX 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 261 payments — averaging $680.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$175K
- Baxter Healthcare$3K
- Bayer$14
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$6
Across 26 payments — averaging $14,915 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$242K
- Medtronic$145K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,78811%
- Speaking & faculty fees$123,71270%
- Travel & lodging$27,67716%
- Food & beverage$4,6763%
- Education$2,7502%
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) | 258 | $174,833 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $2,750 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$85,090
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$80,469
- STARLING SYSTEM$2,750
- INTELLIS$1,960
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$1,225
How this compares
$177,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.
Other anesthesiology in Alpine
- Richard TeamesFort Worth$746K
- Tong GanHouston$700K
- Valentine GibsonRichardson$671K
- James MuellerDallas$636K
- Randy RobbinsPlano$593K
- Gabriel MenaHouston$494K
- Maxim EckmannSan Antonio$349K
- Iden CowanAustin$305K
- Ryan CaseyAustin$287K
- Girish JoshiDallas$239K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.