Brian Thornton, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1053339473
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 601 payments — averaging $1783.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$421K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$283K
- Surgical Innovation Associates, Inc.$229K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$137K
- Johnson And Johnson International$1K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$31
- plus $15 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$737,10869%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,5501%
- Travel & lodging$75,4577%
- Food & beverage$14,0251%
- Other$229,48521%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 189 | $420,888 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 196 | $283,166 |
| Surgical Innovation Associates, Inc. | 1 | $229,485 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 202 | $136,738 |
| Johnson And Johnson International | 10 | $1,302 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$229,485
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$76,993
- MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implant$13,290
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$11,053
- MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$7,359
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$1,233
- MemoryShape Breast Implants$989
- SILTEX Breast Implants$989
- CENTERSCOPE Magnetic Detection Device$124
- FlexHD Acellular Hydrated Dermis$124
How this compares
$1,071,625 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Kentucky.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.