Thurmond Lanier
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1457583429
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.3%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 46.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,408 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $377 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $125.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6K
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$3K
- Arthrex$1K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$1K
- Medline Industries LP$1K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$193
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,44939%
- Food & beverage$4,37632%
- Education$4,01429%
- Gifts$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 65 | $6,422 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 8 | $2,522 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,262 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Medline Industries LP | 6 | $1,035 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $171 |
| Gilead | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $109 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Amgen | 1 | $101 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $94 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $94 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $23 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$13,851 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 24 | $674 |
| Gabapentin | 35 | $468 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 38 | $316 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 20 | $302 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 20 | $225 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $163 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 27 | $149 |
| Ketoconazole | 17 | $138 |
| Prednisone | 27 | $87 |
| Meloxicam | 23 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Gastonia
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$30K
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.