Kenneth Thomas, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Anchorage, AKNPI 1689845299
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $28,350 of the $35,105 with a category attached, or 80.8%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,730 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $140 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AK with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 46 payments — averaging $763.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$29K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$3K
- Curvafix, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$742
- Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$160
- plus $151 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$28,35081%
- Travel & lodging$5,17515%
- Food & beverage$1,5815%
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. | 19 | $28,770 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 2 | $3,150 |
| Curvafix, Inc. | 1 | $1,096 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $1,037 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $742 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Stryker | 3 | $118 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $33 |
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.
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$16,449
- NA$13,025
- CurvaFix IM Implant$1,096
- Taylor Spatial Frame$912
How this compares
$35,105 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 63 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alaska.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Anchorage
- Bryan HaughomAnchorage$179K
- Benjamin PackardAnchorage$40K
- Jason GrayAnchorage$17K
- Ian BrimhallAnchorage$17K
- Thomas PaynterAnchorage$14K
- Kevin PaisleyAnchorage$10K
- Daniel CepelaAnchorage$9K
- Lars MatkinAnchorage$9K
- Adam EllisonAnchorage$8K
- Bradley SparksAnchorage$7K
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.