Thomas Bernasek, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace, FLNPI 1881699726
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $5,892,094 of the $6,355,070 with a category attached, or 92.7%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,448,779 and has fallen 52.7% since, to $685,354 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 343 payments — averaging $18,528 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$6M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$314K
- Corin USA$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$815
- Stryker$641
- plus $3K from 14 others
Across 75 payments — averaging $1084.86 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$69K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$12K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,892,09493%
- Consulting fees$414,2617%
- Travel & lodging$40,8831%
- Food & beverage$7,8330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 179 | $6,033,466 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 110 | $313,602 |
| Corin USA | 2 | $2,703 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $1,030 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $815 |
| Stryker | 5 | $641 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $477 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $329 |
| Linkbio Corp | 2 | $314 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $255 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $236 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 3 | $189 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $175 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $160 |
| Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC | 1 | $128 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $121 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
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.
- ATTUNE$5,109,047
- SUMMIT$1,133,249
- Kincise$93,085
- Kincise Surgical Automated System$29,400
- S-ROM$26,788
- LPS$26,788
- Anspach Helix$2,152
- Irrisept$446
- MAKO$444
- TRITANIUM$438
- TRIATHLON$307
- Velys$230
- mymobility Platform$228
- CellerateRx$181
- Other - Miscellaneous$175
- Persona$149
- Biasurge$148
- TRIDENT$131
- Zynrelef$125
- MACI$121
How this compares
$6,355,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 26 | $867 |
| Meloxicam | 113 | $309 |
| Amoxicillin | 117 | $204 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 21 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Temple Terrace
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- Kenneth GustkeTemple Terrace$5.2M
- Mark MighellTemple Terrace$4.3M
- Michael GarciaTemple Terrace$1.1M
- Christopher BakerTemple Terrace$575K
- John SmallTemple Terrace$467K
- Brian PalumboTemple Terrace$414K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
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.