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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $708 in general payments to Thomas Munger, MD across 8 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 Munger, 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 Munger, 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 Munger, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Rochester, MNNPI 1942272380

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 8 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 Abbott at 31.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $240 and has fallen 58.2% since, to $100 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $10,629.

$708in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $88.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$222
Boston Scientific$191
Medtronic$100
Biosig Technologies, Inc.$86
Biosense Webster, Inc.$75
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$34

$25,020in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $4169.96 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.

Boston Scientific$25K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$708100%

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
Abbott	2	$222
Boston Scientific	2	$191
Medtronic	1	$100
Biosig Technologies, Inc.	1	$86
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$75
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$34

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

$708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 72 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$142,908

Medicare patients

1,138

Services billed

2,217

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
EliquisApixaban	78	$97,418
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	14	$27,355
Dofetilide	16	$7,163
Amiodarone Hcl	53	$2,698
SotalolSotalol Hcl	32	$1,134
Metoprolol Succinate	47	$631
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	25	$529
Losartan Potassium	31	$475
Digoxin	17	$390
Flecainide Acetate	14	$356
Metoprolol Tartrate	25	$268
Furosemide	18	$120
Lisinopril	11	$107

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Rochester

Samuel AsirvathamRochester$1M
Suraj KapaRochester$92K
David HayesRochester$86K
Paul FriedmanRochester$83K
Waddah MalasRochester$36K
Siva MulpuruRochester$25K
Fatima Ali-AhmedRochester$23K
Nicholas TanRochester$21K
Sindhuja PalleRochester$17K
Martin van ZylRochester$16K

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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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