Merritt Thompson
Orthopaedic Surgery · Augusta, GANPI 1295466159
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 81 payments — averaging $78.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Stryker$679
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$647
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$305
- Circinus Medical Technology LLC$256
- Si-bone, Inc.$201
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,73790%
- Education$64710%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 36 | $1,902 |
| Stryker | 10 | $679 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $647 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $305 |
| Circinus Medical Technology LLC | 1 | $256 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $193 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 2 | $193 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $181 |
| My01 Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $157 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $150 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $124 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Vertex | 1 | $120 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Bonalive Inc | 1 | $114 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Team 1, LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $73 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $24 |
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.
- NA$1,118
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$609
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$543
- INTEGRA$449
- ACTIS$325
- Bolt Navigation$256
- MOTOBAND$255
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$181
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$181
- ALPHAVENT$172
- GAMMA$159
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$150
- PRIMATRIX$150
- LCP$148
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$139
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$136
- CERAMENT G$136
- Xperience$133
- BlastX$133
- SurgX$133
How this compares
$6,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Augusta
- Stephen ParadaAugusta$699K
- Lynn CrosbyAugusta$536K
- John DevineAugusta$331K
- Uzondu AgochukwuAugusta$194K
- Nathan KukowskiAugusta$108K
- John MartellAugusta$91K
- Nicholas CapitoAugusta$83K
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.