Ronald Mitchell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace, FLNPI 1629331269
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 50 payments — averaging $128.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Southtech Orthopedics$1K
- Axogen$1K
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$514
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$323
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$238
- plus $795 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,87229%
- Food & beverage$3,33752%
- Education$1,20019%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 27 | $2,153 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 1 | $1,200 |
| Axogen | 5 | $1,187 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 6 | $514 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 4 | $323 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $238 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $195 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $154 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $132 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Stryker | 1 | $102 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
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
$6,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Temple Terrace
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31.4M
- David WatsonTemple Terrace$21M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
- Kenneth GustkeTemple Terrace$5.3M
- Mark MighellTemple Terrace$4.4M
- Michael GarciaTemple Terrace$1.1M
- John SmallTemple Terrace$868K
- Christopher BakerTemple Terrace$732K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
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.