Melissa Boyette, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Bradenton, FLNPI 1831340405
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (52.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 55.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,638 and has fallen 91.1% since, to $325 in 2025.
Across 70 payments — averaging $95.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$233
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$212
- Avanos Medical$32
- Johnson & Johnson$31
- plus $111 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3025%
- Food & beverage$2,91143%
- Education$3,48952%
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 | 6 | $3,711 |
| Stryker | 54 | $2,373 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $233 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $212 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Axogen | 1 | $21 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$6,702 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 60 surgery of the hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 156 | $862 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $847 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Bradenton
- Sara SimmonsBradenton$5K
- Thomas WrightGainesville$4.1M
- David ShenassaPlantation$109K
- Antonio GayosoSt Petersburg$65K
- Robert GrahamJacksonville Beach$62K
- David FriedmanWeston$42K
- Karan DesaiWinter Garden$39K
- Morad AskariCoral Gables$36K
- Jose BorreroAltamonte Springs$35K
- Francisco Schwartz-FernandesOcala$26K
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.