Eric Wicks, MD
Sports Medicine · Lakeland, FLNPI 1184787228
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 150 payments — averaging $86.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Vericel Corporation$2K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$1K
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$870
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$565
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,66728%
- Food & beverage$7,36857%
- Education$1,95615%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 32 | $4,006 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 42 | $2,946 |
| Vericel Corporation | 27 | $2,001 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 21 | $1,272 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 11 | $870 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $565 |
| Stryker | 4 | $492 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $263 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $220 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Vertex | 1 | $86 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $68 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MACI$1,334
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$767
- Oxford$228
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$170
- Switchcut Instruments$147
- Tricera Handpiece$145
- Quatro Link$145
- GAMMA$142
- BioBrace 23mm$138
- STRATAFIX$137
- BioWick X$133
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$125
- Comp Reverse Humeral Tray$119
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FRACTURE MANAGEMENT ANKLE FRACTURE$119
- EUFLEXXA$118
- ALPHAVENT$117
- INSPACE$117
- ROSA-Knee$117
How this compares
$12,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 67 | $1,278 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 98 | $838 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $608 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 27 | $401 |
| Mupirocin | 20 | $173 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 32 | $171 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 14 | $171 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $110 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $74 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $62 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $59 |
| Amoxicillin | 22 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Lakeland
- Lee KaplanMiami$11.3M
- Patrick SmithNaples$3.7M
- Ryan SimovitchWest Palm Beach$1.1M
- Adam AnzGulf Breeze$960K
- Bruce LevyOrlando$816K
- Gautam YagnikMiami$458K
- Carl DilellaVero Beach$384K
- William CottrellClearwater$378K
- Stanton LongeneckerJacksonville$330K
- Jorge GonzalezFort Lauderdale$300K
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.