Thad Kammerlocher, MD
Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1326003997
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $45,962 of the $54,381 with a category attached, or 84.5%. It is spread thinly across 45 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $11,701 and has fallen 66.0% since, to $3,974 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 633 payments — averaging $85.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$12K
- Penumbra, Inc.$11K
- Cook Medical LLC$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$4K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- plus $12K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,41815%
- Food & beverage$45,96285%
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.
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$6,348
- Indigo System$3,644
- Indigo$3,531
- Zilver PTX$3,032
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$2,633
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,868
- Penumbra System$1,339
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$1,279
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$1,149
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$907
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$739
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$736
- Endurant$730
- ELUVIA$692
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$666
- ENDOCROSS Device$610
- Torus Stent Graft System$610
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$609
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$609
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$569
How this compares
$54,381 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,569 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 129 | $125,595 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 11 | $11,230 |
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $8,713 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 252 | $3,000 |
| Mupirocin | 12 | $88 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $32 |
| Diazepam | 16 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $695 | $125,595129 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $77 | $8,71313 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,569 surgery providers in Florida.
Other surgery in Fort Myers
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$731K
- Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
- Natan ZundelNorth Miami Beach$596K
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.