Thomas Freeman, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tampa, FLNPI 1962421297
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $105,000 of the $123,793 with a category attached, or 84.8%. Medtronic accounts for 85.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 131 payments — averaging $944.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$106K
- CTL Medical Corporation$9K
- Tenon Medical, Inc.$4K
- Novo Nordisk$3K
- Sivantage, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$373
- plus $703 from 5 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $4989.36 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.
- Cerapedics Inc.$55K
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 |
| 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
$123,793 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
- Puya AlikhaniTampa$582K
- Steven TresserTampa$388K
- Elias DakwarTampa$348K
- Juan Valdivia ValdiviaTampa$208K
- Kunal VakhariaTampa$190K
- Gabriel Gonzales PortilloTampa$150K
- Patrick KimTampa$145K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
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.