Thomas Ross
Family Medicine · Des Moines, IANPI 1114997731
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $165,711 of the $169,928 with a category attached, or 97.5%. Organon accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $60,798 and has fallen 76.8% since, to $14,102 in 2025. Among family medicine clinicians in IA 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 203 payments — averaging $837.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organon$139K
- Merck$30K
- AstraZeneca$39
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$165,71198%
- Travel & lodging$3,8732%
- Food & beverage$3450%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organon | 145 | $139,394 |
| Merck | 57 | $30,495 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $39 |
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.
- NEXPLANON$168,589
How this compares
$169,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,357 family medicine providers in Iowa.
Other family medicine in Des Moines
- Yogesh ShahDes Moines$159K
- Dylan LoweDes Moines$105K
- Lisa KlockDes Moines$9K
- Kristin GisselmanDes Moines$8K
- Kirk PetersonHuxley$576K
- Nicholas GoetschWaterloo$525K
- Stephen HarrisonClinton$249K
- Leslie George PaulsenMuscatine$136K
- Michael AbouassalyWest Burlington$88K
- Kevin DeregnierWinterset$68K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.