Thomas McCormack, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kansas City, MONPI 1972581353
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,500 of the $21,228 with a category attached, or 82.4%. Spinal Simplicity, LLC accounts for 82.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,513 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $1,419 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $707.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$18K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$1K
- Stryker$42
- Smith+Nephew$36
Across 19 payments — averaging $43,745 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$831K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,50082%
- Travel & lodging$1,7798%
- Food & beverage$5152%
- Education$1,4347%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $17,500 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 24 | $2,450 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker | 3 | $42 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $36 |
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
$21,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 54 | $809 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 77 | $735 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Kansas City
- Akin CilKansas City$318K
- Shannon CarpenterKansas City$258K
- Michael BoinKansas City$194K
- Brian GeraghtyKansas City$34K
- Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
- Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
- Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
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.