Bradley Thomas, MD
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1710008875
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.4%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $66,254, 2.9 times the $22,605 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 264 payments — averaging $615.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$154K
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Atricure, Inc.$754
- Immersivetouch, Inc.$174
- Boston Scientific$165
- Avanos Medical$150
- plus $92 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$61,99038%
- Consulting fees$75,35846%
- Travel & lodging$10,9367%
- Food & beverage$7,4025%
- Education$6,7254%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 212 | $153,743 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 25 | $7,332 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $754 |
| Immersivetouch, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $165 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $150 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $40 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- RIBFIX TITAN$62,127
- RibFix Blu$21,582
- RibFix Advantage$13,115
- CMF & Thoracic-None$6,159
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$3,740
- DAVINCI XI$3,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,249
- AdvantageRib$1,424
- CMF & Thoracic Product Portfolio$752
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$308
- SternaLock 360$214
- ImmersiveTouch$174
- A&E MEDICAL / STERNALOCK XP RIGID FIXATION SYSTEM$156
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$150
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$100
How this compares
$162,410 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 16 | $11,134 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $395 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 13 | $267 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 13 | $207 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 13 | $174 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Charlotte
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$304K
- Erin BakerCharlotte$221K
- John GreenCharlotte$202K
- Keith GersinCharlotte$80K
- Timothy KuwadaCharlotte$69K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$68K
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.