Thomas Jacobs Yax, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Kalkaska Memorial Health Center Hospital · Kalkaska, MI
• Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital Hospital · Cadillac, MI · listed as Munson Healthcare Cadillac
• Munson Medical Center Hospital · Traverse City, MI
• Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Hospital · Frankfort, MI
• Munson Home Care Home health agency · Traverse City, MI

Colleagues at Grand Traverse Physician Services PC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 123 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Ali Alateya, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Traverse City, MI
• Dr. Kechi Amadi-Obi, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Bel Air, MD
• Shalynn Arrington, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Temecula, CA
• Dr. Ruba F. Barakat, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Meridian, MS
• Jacques Burgess, MD Pediatrics Physician · Traverse City, MI
• Dr. Byron Kendall Herpich, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Wyoming, MN
• Dr. Brian Allen Lishawa, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Traverse City, MI
• Vlad Tudor Motoc, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Jackson, MI
• Christopher Richard Renkiewicz, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Traverse City, MI
• Douglas Harley Slater, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Grayling, MI
• Dr. Juan Ernesto Torres, MD Hospitalist Physician · Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Jeffrey M Valice, DO Internal Medicine Physician · Traverse City, MI

Other providers in Traverse City

• David J Wilcox, DO

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1073512539

  906 Business Park Dr, Traverse City, MI 49686-8683 · (800) 968-6866

• Abbigale Joan Ellyn Wilson, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1760702161

  906 Business Park Dr, Traverse City, MI 49686-8683 · (231) 935-8750

• Samantha K Windle, DO

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1013328640

  1400 Medical Campus Dr, Traverse City, MI 49684-7823 · (231) 935-8000

• Lorah L Wright, DO

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1073610945

  945 E 8th St, Traverse City, MI 49686 · (231) 935-0695

• MS. Kari L. Young, DO

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1780850941

  4290 Copper Ridge Dr Ste 200, Traverse City, MI 49684-7205 · (231) 935-8930