Has Tom Zhou, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,957 in general payments to Tom Zhou, MD across 83 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 Tom Zhou, 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 Tom Zhou, 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.

Tom Zhou, MD

Otolaryngology · Grand Junction, CONPI 1194106492

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,852 of the $3,957 with a category attached, or 72.1%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 41.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,350, more than ten times the $125 reported in 2020.

$3,957in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $47.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
GSK$259
Sanofi$157
Tactile Systems Technology Inc$106
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$101
plus $484 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,10528%
Food & beverage$2,85272%

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
Stryker	11	$1,638
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	23	$1,211
GSK	8	$259
Sanofi	8	$157
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	5	$106
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$101
Medtronic	2	$81
AbbVie	5	$78
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$64
Amgen	3	$50
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	3	$48
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$45
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$32
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$27
Cochlear Americas	1	$24
Smith+Nephew	1	$22
Optinose US, Inc.	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.

SCOPIS ENT$592
CORE$396
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$333
NUCALA$144
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$128
Inspire$122
XPRESS LOPROFILE$121

How this compares

$3,957 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 174 otolaryngology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$113,896

Medicare patients

275

Services billed

692

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
Ofloxacin	20	$932
Azelastine Hcl	17	$692
Fluticasone Propionate	50	$562
Ipratropium Bromide	22	$425
Omeprazole	54	$257
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	18	$238
Mupirocin	31	$180
Pantoprazole Sodium	13	$77
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	17	$68
Levothyroxine Sodium	12	$66
Cephalexin	14	$57
Prednisone	18	$55
Famotidine	12	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Grand Junction

McKay MolineGrand Junction$4K
James MerrellGrand Junction$3K
Suzanne BertramFort Collins$475K
Barton KnoxColorado Springs$164K
Nicholas BeckmannColorado Springs$151K
Vijay RamakrishnanAurora$128K
Michael WilhelmColorado Springs$76K
Andrew WinklerAurora$68K
David OppermanDenver$67K
Robert KellerColorado Springs$45K

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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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