Thomas Thornhill
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1699732065
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $11,931,553 of the $11,954,742 with a category attached, or 99.8%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MA 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 58 payments — averaging $206,116 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$12M
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$11,931,553100%
- Consulting fees$22,3840%
- Travel & lodging$7360%
- Food & beverage$700%
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. | 58 | $11,954,742 |
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
$11,954,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boston
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.3M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.4M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- John KwonBoston$663K
- Christopher ChiodoBoston$539K
- Andrew WhiteBoston$438K
- Carl TalmoBoston$315K
- Michael KainBoston$171K
- Nishant SunejaBoston$161K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.