Sara Simmons, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Bradenton, FLNPI 1255662797
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,141 of the $4,737 with a category attached, or 66.3%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sonex Health, Inc. at 50.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,997 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $72 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $92.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sonex Health, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$196
- Endo USA, Inc.$165
- Smith+Nephew$71
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$35
- plus $53 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,55033%
- Food & beverage$3,14166%
- Education$461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 6 | $2,379 |
| Stryker | 27 | $1,837 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $196 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $165 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $71 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,737 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 | 74 | $395 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $134 |
| Meloxicam | 25 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Bradenton
- Melissa BoyetteBradenton$7K
- 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.