Who Paid My Doc
Richard Thunder
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine La Jolla, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1780602276 CMS profile 171968
9850 Genesee Avenue, Suite 210, La Jolla, CA 92037
General payments
$3,856
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2024, Richard Thunder of La Jolla, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,856 across 67 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 30th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
6 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | General | $206 | 3 | |
| 2023 | General | $728 | 11 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,553 | 16 | |
| 2021 | General | $514 | 12 | |
| 2020 | General | $102 | 4 | |
| 2019 | General | $753 | 21 |
Beside peers
- Richard Thunder
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Thunder were reported at $0. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.
Show as a table
| Year | Richard Thunder | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $753 | $2,106 | $337–$18,608 | $163 |
| 2020 | $102 | $1,213 | $156–$15,082 | $114 |
| 2021 | $514 | $1,834 | $271–$15,617 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,553 | $2,015 | $320–$17,036 | $149 |
| 2023 | $728 | $1,925 | $336–$14,599 | $160 |
| 2024 | $206 | $2,110 | $341–$12,483 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $2,061 | $347–$14,651 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 13 drugsPart D claims
478
Drug cost
$4,189
Branded share of claims
19.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | Generic | 45 | $1,640 | |
| Diclofenac Sodium | Generic | 53 | $527 | |
| Ibuprofen | Generic | 54 | $362 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 49 | $361 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 49 | $281 | |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 51 | $250 | |
| Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine | Brand | 22 | $168 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 21 | $136 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 66 | $116 | |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | Generic | 17 | $104 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 99 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$215,354
Medicare patients
630
Services billed
9,305
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 69% | |
| Osteoporosis | 26% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 25% | |
| Depression | 23% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 22% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 20% | |
| Cancer | 18% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronan or derivative, orthovisc, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7324 | Office | 22 | 90 | $8,402 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 183 | 1,290 | $949 |
| Injection, bupivicaine, not otherwise specified, 0.5 mg J0665 | Office | 154 | 5,492 | $52 |
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
67 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.