Patrick Bosarge, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.9%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Avanos Medical at 48.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,233 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $264 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AL 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 50 payments — averaging $557.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avanos Medical$13K
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Zimmer Biomet$492
- Teleflex LLC$326
- TELA Bio, Inc.$208
- Atricure, Inc.$171
- plus $154 from 3 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $12,928 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- KCI USA, Inc.$43K
- AstraZeneca$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,51245%
- Travel & lodging$1,3755%
- Food & beverage$2,4659%
- Education$11,50041%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avanos Medical | 12 | $13,395 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 21 | $13,106 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $492 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $326 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $208 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$27,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 123 | $7,520 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 88 | $1,950 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $304 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 17 | $256 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 35 | $215 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 18 | $179 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 22 | $120 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 19 | $56 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $56 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $44 |
| Metronidazole | 23 | $38 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Foley
- Eric RobertsFoley$39K
- Jeffrey CaylorFoley$37K
- Kaci SimsFoley$15K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
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.