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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $144,401 in general payments to Thomas Sonnanstine, MD across 230 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 Sonnanstine, 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 Sonnanstine, 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 Sonnanstine, MD

Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1396852927

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $109,413 of the $144,401 with a category attached, or 75.8%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 56.9% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in OH 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.

$144,401in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 230 payments — averaging $627.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$82K
Johnson & Johnson$26K
Medtronic$23K
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$5K
Cook Incorporated$3K
Intuitive Surgical$2K
plus $3K from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$109,41376%
Speaking & faculty fees$17,91512%
Travel & lodging$10,0137%
Food & beverage$6,7465%
Education$3050%
Gifts$90%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	72	$82,171
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	48	$26,292
Medtronic	68	$23,170
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.	10	$4,793
Cook Incorporated	1	$2,800
Intuitive Surgical	14	$2,014
Cook Biotech Incorporated	1	$2,000
Covidien LP	3	$606
Baxter Healthcare	3	$264
Cook Medical LLC	2	$107
Olympus America Inc.	1	$81
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	3	$43
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$31
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$29

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.

ECHELON ENDOPATH$50,265
Echelon Flex$48,973
Echelon Circular$27,934
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$27,758
HARMONIC Product Family$27,758
Enseal X1$17,312
Harmonic$13,124
Signia$10,229
SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$9,900
ENSEAL Product Family$9,585
STRATAFIX$8,133
Da Vinci Surgical System$1,847
Enseal$1,620
Situate$1,493
LigaSure$821
Endopath Xcel$450
EEA$226
Sonicision$207
Surgicel Powder$125
Echelon Endopath Staple Line Reinforcement$122

How this compares

$144,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 988 surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$32,488

Medicare patients

120

Services billed

327

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
Misoprostol	41	$3,651
Naltrexone Hcl	60	$2,155
Pantoprazole Sodium	98	$1,460
Omeprazole	12	$116
Ondansetron Hcl	22	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Columbus

Michael MearaColumbus$808K
Marshall SpaldingColumbus$450K
Michelle KincaidColumbus$262K
Mark GazallColumbus$52K
Bradley NeedlemanColumbus$49K
William DevoeColumbus$36K
Thomas RobertsonColumbus$32K
Nirav RanaColumbus$32K
Jonathan ThompsonWest Chester$2.1M
Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M

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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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