Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Thomas Vail

Orthopaedic Surgery Durham, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1598852014 CMS profile 345103

4101 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC 27704

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General payments

$5,680,171

161 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Thomas Vail of Durham, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,680,171 across 161 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 99th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,079,168 27
2024 General $771,517 9
2023 General $731,122 10
2022 General $941,119 20
2021 General $779,585 34
2020 General $632,577 16
2019 General $745,083 45

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Thomas Vail were reported at $1,079,168. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Thomas Vail Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $745,083 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $632,577 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $779,585 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $941,119 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $731,122 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $771,517 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $1,079,168 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $5,605,739 131 payments
  2. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $72,822 26 payments
  3. Ethicon Inc. $1,440 1 payment
  4. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $121 1 payment
  5. Stryker Corporation $31 1 payment
  6. Janssen Research & Development, LLC $17 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $5,491,749 46 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $177,814 49 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $9,146 37 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $1,461 29 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ATTUNE Ortho-Knee $4,244,295 64 payments
  2. ATTUNE Ortho-Knee $1,372,811 48 payments
  3. CORAIL Ortho-Hip $33,770 8 payments
  4. PINNACLE Ortho-Hip $33,695 14 payments
  5. EMPHASYS $15,944 13 payments
  6. SIGMA Ortho-Knee $11,650 3 payments
  7. SIGMA Ortho-Knee $11,650 3 payments
  8. CORAIL Ortho-Hip $1,574 2 payments
  9. DePuy Synthes Advantage $1,440 1 payment
  10. PINNACLE Ortho-Hip $1,440 1 payment
  11. Other $798 6 payments

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

Records

161 reported

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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 2025

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

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