Medical Doctor Program year 2023 Reported 2019–2023 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Nicole Thomas

Rheumatology Wheaton, MD Medical Doctor

NPI 1225299050 CMS profile 191314

2730 University Blvd W, 310, Wheaton, MD 20902

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General payments

$843

23 records reported · program years 2019–2023

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2023

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2023, Nicole Thomas of Wheaton, MD is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $843 across 23 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 35th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

4 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2023 General $340 5
2022 General $118 1
2020 General $81 4
2019 General $303 13

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Nicole Thomas
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Nicole Thomas were reported at $0. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Nicole Thomas Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $303 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $81 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $0 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $118 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $340 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $0 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $0 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Horizon Therapeutics plc $227 4 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $166 3 payments
  3. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $113 1 payment
  4. AbbVie, Inc. $76 4 payments
  5. Radius Health, Inc. $58 2 payments
  6. Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. $49 1 payment
  7. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $46 2 payments
  8. Lilly USA, LLC $43 2 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $27 2 payments
  10. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $25 1 payment
  11. Other $14 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Food and Beverage $843 23 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. EVENITY $150 2 payments
  2. Tymlos $58 2 payments
  3. Zilretta $49 1 payment
  4. Prolia $48 2 payments
  5. TALTZ $43 2 payments
  6. HUMIRA $38 2 payments
  7. KRYSTEXXA $31 3 payments
  8. SIMPONI ARIA $25 1 payment
  9. STELARA $25 1 payment
  10. ILARIS $24 1 payment
  11. Other $117 7 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 20 drugs

Part D claims

783

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$293,836

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

14.3%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Orencia Clickject Abatacept Brand 13 $96,625
Otezla Apremilast Brand 19 $92,199
Taltz Autoinjector Ixekizumab Brand 12 $81,119
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 122 $4,875
Celecoxib Generic 22 $3,653
Risedronate Sodium Generic 26 $2,933
Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium Brand 68 $2,747
Colchicine Generic 26 $2,613
Leflunomide Generic 21 $1,583
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 42 $1,096

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 20 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 108 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,378,232

Of which drugs: $1,129,776

Medicare patients

697

Average age 75

Services billed

99,693

585 women, 112 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 74%
High blood pressure 66%
Osteoporosis 62%
Ischemic heart disease 20%
Chronic kidney disease 17%
Diabetes 16%
Cancer 16%
Depression 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 189 14,820 $308,022
Injection, romosozumab-aqqg, 1 mg J3111 Office 28 22,050 $189,570
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 12 3,875 $128,891
Injection, tocilizumab, 1 mg J3262 Office 16 15,440 $72,758
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 19 7,750 $70,217
Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg J1745 Office 17 1,870 $46,617
Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 Office 68 340 $1,669
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90653 Office 13 13 $1,064
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 29 2,425 $245

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

23 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2023

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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