Eric Thomas
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1306107313
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,968 with a category attached, or 61.0%. CGG Medical Inc accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,502 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $33 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $3,057.
Across 27 payments — averaging $72.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CGG Medical Inc$1K
- Arthrex$306
- AbbVie$115
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$107
- Organogenesis Inc.$67
- KCI USA, Inc.$43
- plus $115 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$30616%
- Food & beverage$46223%
- Education$1,20061%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CGG Medical Inc | 2 | $1,214 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $306 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $115 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Dornier Medtech America, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$1,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 87 foot & ankle surgery providers in South 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 29 | $252 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 28 | $125 |
| Levofloxacin | 12 | $42 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 20 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Greenville
- Robert KleinGreenville$358K
- John WomackGreenville$96K
- Shiv MehtaGreenville$16K
- William HuntingtonGreenville$2K
- Benjamin OverleyHilton Head Island$643K
- Tyler GonzalezColumbia$525K
- Alison GartenRock Hill$419K
- Christopher GrossCharleston$394K
- William JamesColumbia$222K
- William HarrisLancaster$203K
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.