Aaron Bates, MD
Sports Medicine · Fleming Island, FLNPI 1417939679
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (44.0%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Team 1, LLC at 41.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,216 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $1,585 in 2025.
Across 199 payments — averaging $114.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Team 1, LLC$9K
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Arthrex$4K
- Amgen$869
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$766
- Zimmer Biomet$630
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,04044%
- Food & beverage$7,65634%
- Education$5,14723%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Team 1, LLC | 15 | $9,443 |
| Smith+Nephew | 45 | $5,236 |
| Arthrex | 23 | $3,674 |
| Amgen | 66 | $869 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $766 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $630 |
| 4web, Inc. | 5 | $388 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $321 |
| Orthopedic Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $282 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 3 | $271 |
| Vericel Corporation | 8 | $155 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $117 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $99 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Healicoil$1,623
- GRYPHON$766
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$697
- ALLOGRAFT$394
- Firstpass$265
- Regeneten$262
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$259
- Acufex$241
- Persona$235
- Accu-pass$226
- COMPREHENSIVE$150
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$149
- CellerateRx$142
- ROSA$141
- Beacon Biomass Delivery Trephine$136
- RF20000$130
- LENS Surgical Imaging System$126
- REGENETEN Shoulder$125
- The Hip Tool$118
- Catalyst Total CSR$117
How this compares
$22,843 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 402 sports medicine providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Calcipotriene | 27 | $5,645 |
| Lidocaine | 111 | $4,976 |
| Meloxicam | 361 | $1,586 |
| Methylprednisolone | 30 | $193 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Fleming Island
- Lee KaplanMiami$11.3M
- Patrick SmithNaples$2.9M
- Ryan SimovitchWest Palm Beach$1.1M
- Bruce LevyOrlando$816K
- Gautam YagnikMiami$440K
- Carl DilellaVero Beach$384K
- Adam AnzGulf Breeze$354K
- Stanton LongeneckerJacksonville$330K
- Luga PodestaNaples$206K
- Julianne MunozMiami$149K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.