Samuel Thomas, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Phenix City, ALNPI 1538588769
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $136.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Arthrex$5K
- Exactech, Inc.$3K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$2K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$905
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,49038%
- Food & beverage$6,50133%
- Education$5,68429%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 54 | $5,046 |
| Arthrex | 21 | $4,967 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 3 | $2,880 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 8 | $2,208 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 10 | $1,774 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $905 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $666 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 6 | $353 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $254 |
| Amgen | 2 | $129 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $50 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $43 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $25 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$2,880
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,599
- MPO Hip System$1,482
- MAKO$808
- NA$352
- GAMMA$269
- ACCOLADE$268
- Actishield$200
- INSIGNIA$164
- TFN-Advance$160
- TRIATHLON$154
- EVENITY$109
How this compares
$19,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 319 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 18 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Phenix City
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- James SmithGadsden$2.7M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.3M
- Paul CanaleDaphne$609K
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Jeffrey DavisBirmingham$293K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$219K
- Lawrence LemakVestavia$216K
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.