Thomas Freeman, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tampa, FLNPI 1962421297
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 142 payments — averaging $1258.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$106K
- Cerapedics Inc.$55K
- CTL Medical Corporation$9K
- Tenon Medical, Inc.$4K
- Novo Nordisk$3K
- Sivantage, Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$105,00085%
- Consulting fees$11,5609%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,5003%
- Travel & lodging$1,4901%
- Food & beverage$2,2432%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 89 | $105,916 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 11 | $54,883 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 6 | $8,772 |
| Tenon Medical, Inc. | 1 | $3,500 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $3,375 |
| Sivantage, Inc. | 3 | $1,154 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $373 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $225 |
| Spinesource, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $157 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ACTIVA PC$56,250
- ACTIVA$45,000
- CATAMARAN SIJ Fusion System$3,500
- Catamaran Sacroiliac Joint Fixation System$186
- Cervical-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$123
- Spinal-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$123
- iFuse Implant$119
How this compares
$178,676 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 556 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 17 | $194 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Tampa
- Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
- Michael VogelbaumTampa$863K
- Puya AlikhaniTampa$698K
- Steven TresserTampa$412K
- Elias DakwarTampa$348K
- Yarema BezchlibnykTampa$308K
- Erik HaymanTampa$242K
- Kunal VakhariaTampa$220K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Ira GoodmanOrlando$10.4M
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.