Ekkehard Bonatz, MD
Hand Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1164470381
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,330 of the $4,590 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,420 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $376 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $97.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$285
- Prime Surgical, LLC$138
- Bioventus LLC$137
- Trimed, Inc.$112
- Acumed LLC$95
- plus $492 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,33073%
- Food & beverage$1,19326%
- Education$661%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $3,330 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $285 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 5 | $138 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $137 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $95 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $81 |
| Stryker | 1 | $63 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $43 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $37 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Axogen | 1 | $24 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$4,590 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 29 hand surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 33 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Birmingham
- Kathleen McKeonBirmingham$151K
- Christopher BeaumontBirmingham$18K
- Karlee LoftinBirmingham$12K
- Joseph IngramBirmingham$4K
- Kathryn BentleyBirmingham$4K
- Erin RansomBirmingham$1K
- Hussein TurkiMontgomery$35K
- Thomas SellersMontgomery$10K
- Jared BurkettMobile$8K
- Allison HunterDaphne$8K
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.