Stuart Patterson, MD
Hand Surgery · Lakeland, FLNPI 1215931753
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,187 of the $2,965 with a category attached, or 73.8%. Sonex Health, Inc. accounts for 75.2% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,335, 9.2 times the $146 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $3,372.
Across 34 payments — averaging $87.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sonex Health, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$244
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$173
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$164
- Arthrex$72
- Catalyst Orthoscience$32
- plus $52 from 3 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $33,550 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.
- Sonex Health, Inc.$67K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$68823%
- Food & beverage$2,18774%
- Education$903%
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 | $2,229 |
| Stryker | 7 | $244 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 11 | $173 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $164 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $72 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $32 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Sx-One Microknife$2,215
How this compares
$2,965 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 173 hand 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 152 | $663 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $323 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $80 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Lakeland
- Jorge Orbay-CerratoMiami$12.5M
- Peter EvansStuart$525K
- Nirav GuptaOcala$491K
- Francisco RubioMiami$345K
- Justin ZumstegOrlando$133K
- Maria-Carolina Orbay AranMiami$108K
- Paul PatersonVero Beach$104K
- Helen Hui-ChouMiami$95K
- Philipp StreubelWeston$81K
- Roy CardosoCoral Gables$79K
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.