William Thetford, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1497983241
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 37 payments — averaging $84.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Southern Edge Orthopaedics, Inc.$2K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$790
- Organogenesis Inc.$348
- Reprise Biomedical, Inc.$172
- DJO, LLC$96
- Kerecis Limited$49
- plus $124 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,58051%
- Education$1,53949%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Edge Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $1,539 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 12 | $790 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 10 | $348 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| DJO, LLC | 4 | $96 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $49 |
| Stryker | 1 | $42 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $31 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MIRO3D$172
How this compares
$3,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 850 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MupirocinMupirocin Calcium | 15 | $1,342 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 56 | $928 |
| Ciclopirox | 15 | $470 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $256 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 19 | $197 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $85 |
| Cephalexin | 22 | $69 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Myers
- Andrew BelisFort Myers$206K
- Chad SimmonsFort Myers$60K
- Thomas SangiovanniCoral Gables$2.1M
- Shayne JensenPanama City$1.3M
- Thomas RoukisOrlando$1.1M
- Craig BreslauerStuart$971K
- Bradley LammWest Palm Beach$938K
- Amber ShaneOrlando$830K
- Jonathan BlumKissimmee$814K
- Riquel GonzalezHialeah$612K
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.