Has John Thomas, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,812 in general payments to John Thomas, MD across 83 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Thomas, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Thomas, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Thomas, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Sarasota, FLNPI 1831505197

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (34.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 24.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,393, 8.2 times the $416 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $11,822.

$11,812in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $142.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Zimmer Biomet$3K
Arthrex$1K
Stryker$1K
Medacta USA, Inc.$1K
Omnilife Science, Inc$894
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,52021%
Travel & lodging$3,47229%
Food & beverage$4,05734%
Education$1,76215%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$2,882
Zimmer Biomet	18	$2,849
Arthrex	1	$1,200
Stryker	14	$1,181
Medacta USA, Inc.	11	$1,163
Omnilife Science, Inc	7	$894
Johnson & Johnson	4	$333
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.	1	$178
Smith+Nephew	3	$167
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$155
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$155
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	1	$125
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$119
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	2	$115
MVP Orthopedics Inc	3	$74
Avanos Medical	3	$70
Biocomposites Inc	1	$48
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$41
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC	1	$27
Acell, Inc.	1	$23
KCI USA, 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

$11,812 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 96 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$789,582

Medicare patients

1,077

Services billed

11,109

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
Meloxicam	917	$3,180
Methocarbamol	153	$1,656
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	138	$1,446
Diclofenac Sodium	70	$1,305
Tramadol Hcl	158	$791
Ibuprofen	117	$770
Celecoxib	60	$744
Naproxen	17	$287
Methylprednisolone	44	$282
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	13	$277
Doxycycline Monohydrate	20	$275
Amoxicillin	121	$161
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	16	$101
Clindamycin Hcl	19	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Sarasota

Edward StolarskiSarasota$445K
Sean DingleSarasota$8K
Carlos LaverniaMiami$5.4M
Juan SuarezMiami$3.9M
John RedmondJacksonville$987K
Gavan DuffyJacksonville$543K
Timothy van de LeurSummerfield$511K
Andrew NoblePalm Beach Gardens$308K
Raul GostheMiami$252K
Chancellor GrayGainesville$228K

See the full list for Florida →

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.

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