Thomas Vinton
Family Medicine · Omaha, NENPI 1184688939
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,242 of the $2,571 with a category attached, or 87.2%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,160 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $12 in 2022.
Across 150 payments — averaging $17.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$309
- Amgen$305
- Novo Nordisk$300
- GSK$275
- AbbVie$250
- Lilly USA, LLC$163
- plus $968 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25010%
- Food & beverage$2,24287%
- Education$793%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $309 |
| Amgen | 23 | $305 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $300 |
| GSK | 4 | $275 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $250 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $163 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $136 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $122 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $111 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $96 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $67 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $65 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $48 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $38 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $37 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $12 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $11 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 981 family medicine providers in Nebraska.
Other family medicine in Omaha
- Gerard StanleyOmaha$50K
- Yongge LiuOmaha$15K
- M DadaOmaha$14K
- Christopher ConnollyOmaha$12K
- Paul VanaOmaha$12K
- Stephen TetraultOmaha$11K
- James RamigOmaha$11K
- Jeffrey RappOmaha$10K
- Christine Carlson RahnOmaha$10K
- Joseph DumbaOmaha$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.