Thomas Sexton, PA
Physician Assistant · Portland, ORNPI 1568027829
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,337 of the $8,919 with a category attached, or 82.3%. Steelhead Surgical Inc accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,869 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $119 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in OR 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 32 payments — averaging $278.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$5K
- Arthrex$3K
- Stryker$175
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$175
- Johnson & Johnson$92
- Medacta USA, Inc.$59
- plus $144 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$91910%
- Food & beverage$6647%
- Education$7,33782%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 7 | $5,447 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $2,828 |
| Stryker | 1 | $175 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $175 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $92 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $56 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MAKO$175
How this compares
$8,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,756 physician assistant providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 123 | $1,207 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 104 | $822 |
| Mupirocin | 41 | $282 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 31 | $165 |
| Cephalexin | 54 | $144 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $121 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $106 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Portland
- Sean BrownPortland$43K
- Meegan MangumPortland$25K
- Scott FrazeePortland$24K
- Lucy NusralaPortland$9K
- Madelyn DoPortland$8K
- Kevin BrandtPortland$8K
- Virginia WhitneyPortland$8K
- Mary BurnellPortland$7K
- William SimpsonPortland$7K
- Kelsey PerfectPortland$5K
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.