Thomas Wertin, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Gilbert, AZNPI 1093759789
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $8,273 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,741 and has fallen 77.7% since, to $1,500 in 2025.
Across 21 payments — averaging $393.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$40
- Avanos Medical$32
Across 18 payments — averaging $19,193 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.
- CSL Behring$345K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$97212%
- Food & beverage$3014%
- Education$7,00085%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $8,202 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $32 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$847
How this compares
$8,273 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 45 surgical critical care providers in Arizona.
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.
Other surgical critical care in Gilbert
- Marc MatthewsPhoenix$247K
- Francis Ali-OsmanPhoenix$104K
- Mark GunstChandler$45K
- Arpana JainTucson$41K
- Hahn Soe-LinPhoenix$23K
- Joseph SucherPhoenix$20K
- Alicia MangramPhoenix$20K
- Adil LokhandwalaChandler$20K
- Fahim HabibPhoenix$19K
- James BogertPhoenix$12K
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.