Thomas Hunt, MD
Hand Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1831149665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,500 of the $11,486 with a category attached, or 65.3%. Synthes GmbH accounts for 76.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,957 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $189 in 2024.
Across 31 payments — averaging $370.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Synthes GmbH$9K
- Arthrex$2K
- Medinc Of Texas$740
- Stryker$240
- Johnson & Johnson$116
Across 1 payment — averaging $29,596 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.
- AbbVie$30K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,50065%
- Travel & lodging$2,01218%
- Food & beverage$7747%
- Education$1,20010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Synthes GmbH | 20 | $8,798 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,592 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $740 |
| Stryker | 2 | $240 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $116 |
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.
How this compares
$11,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Other hand surgery in Fort Myers
- Spencer SkinnerFort Myers$6K
- 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
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.