Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2023–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Thomas Ward

Colon & Rectal Surgery Athens, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1871949768 CMS profile 1861319

3320 Old Jefferson Rd Bldg 700, Athens, GA 30607

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General payments

$1,987

21 records reported · program years 2023–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2023–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Thomas Ward of Athens, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,987 across 21 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 42nd percentile of Colon & Rectal Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

3 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $225 11
2024 General $1,715 9
2023 General $48 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Thomas Ward
  • Colon & Rectal Surgery median
  • Middle half of Colon & Rectal Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Thomas Ward were reported at $225. Among 1,481 Colon & Rectal Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $317 and the middle half received between $109 and $1,248.

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Year Thomas Ward Colon & Rectal Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $443 $125–$2,179 $163
2020 $0 $167 $53–$931 $114
2021 $0 $207 $72–$1,272 $132
2022 $0 $341 $111–$1,587 $149
2023 $48 $322 $115–$1,420 $160
2024 $1,715 $328 $112–$1,354 $164
2025 $225 $317 $109–$1,248 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $1,447 5 payments
  2. Kerecis Limited $138 1 payment
  3. Applied Medical Resources Corporation $93 1 payment
  4. Baxter Healthcare $48 1 payment
  5. Ethicon US, LLC $37 1 payment
  6. Sobi, Inc $36 2 payments
  7. Medtronic, Inc. $27 1 payment
  8. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $20 1 payment
  9. Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $20 1 payment
  10. Pfizer Inc. $19 1 payment
  11. Other $102 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. Education $1,000 1 payment
  2. Food and Beverage $702 18 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $285 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. DAVINCI XI $1,000 1 payment
  2. Da Vinci Surgical System $447 4 payments
  3. Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose $138 1 payment
  4. Kerecis Omega3 Marigen Wound Care $138 1 payment
  5. Kerecis Omega3 Marigen Wound Care $138 1 payment
  6. Kerecis Omega3 Marigen Wound Care $138 1 payment
  7. Kerecis Omega3 Marigen Wound Care $138 1 payment
  8. Gelport Laparoscopic System $93 1 payment
  9. Hillrom - FCS 700 Boom $48 1 payment
  10. Echelon Flex $37 1 payment
  11. Other $288 14 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 20 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$8,416

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

22

Average age 75

Services billed

46

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 68%

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.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
SYNAGIS
  • Sobi, Inc $17
$17 — —
Tavalisse
  • Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $9
$9 — —
Rezlidhia
  • Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $9
$9 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

21 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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