Alfred Bonati Net Worth 2026

Dr. Alfred Bonati is a Florida spine surgeon who founded the Bonati Spine Institute in Hudson, Pasco County, in 1981. No reputable outlet publishes a net worth figure for him. The most concrete financial number on record is from a 2023 ABC Action News investigation, which reported that his medical and business operations brought in about $2.5 million a month in gross revenue in 2022. In April 2025, both the institute and Bonati personally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

What is Alfred Bonati's net worth?

There is no published estimate from Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth or any news organization, and we do not give one. The old version of this page called him "one of the highest-paid surgeons in the world," which no source supports.

What the public record shows cuts both ways. On one side, the business was large: roughly $2.5 million a month in gross revenue in 2022, nearly 100 employees, and a second location in Las Vegas from 2017 to 2021 (ABC Action News / WFTS). On the other, the surgical center was shut by state regulators for months in 2023, a $500 million lawsuit he filed against the state was dismissed, and in April 2025 he and the institute sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (Tampa Bay Times, Tampa Bay Business Journal). Gross revenue is not profit, and a bankruptcy filing means his debts and assets are being sorted out in court, so any fixed net worth figure would be a guess.

Alfred Bonati's yearly earnings and income

The old page claimed a yearly income of $6 million, a monthly income of $500,000 and a daily income of $17,000. None of those numbers had a source, and they have been removed.

The closest verified figure is the business-level one above: about $2.5 million a month in gross revenue in 2022, from documents obtained by the ABC Action News I-Team. Bonati said in a 2020 deposition that he performed about 10 surgeries in an average week, and the station noted that surgeries at the institute can cost tens of thousands of dollars (ABC Action News). How much of that revenue reached him personally is not public.

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Early life and family

In a 2020 video deposition reported by ABC Action News, Bonati testified that he was born in Chile in 1939 and went to medical school in Spain (ABC Action News). That makes him in his mid-80s in 2026, not 54 as the old page claimed. He has not published other details about his childhood.

Alfred Bonati's wife

Earlier versions of this page named a wife and said the couple had two children. We could not confirm either in a reliable source. A Kimberly Bonati has spoken publicly for the institute as its senior vice president of media and communications (WFLA), but the sources we opened do not describe her relationship to Dr. Bonati, so we do not state one.

Education

According to his deposition testimony, Bonati attended medical school in Spain and then trained at several U.S. institutions in the 1970s and early 1980s, including Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest, the University of Alabama Hospital and Georgetown University Hospital (ABC Action News). The old page's claim that he attended the University of Seville is consistent with "medical school in Spain," but we could not confirm the specific school.

His website calls him chief orthopaedic surgeon. In the same deposition he said he had failed the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons board certification exam at least twice, and the Florida Department of Health lists no specialty certification it recognizes for him (ABC Action News). Florida does not require specialty certification to practice.

Professional life

Sources: ABC Action News, ABC Action News, WFLA, Tampa Bay Times, Tampa Bay Business Journal.

The institute performs outpatient spine procedures under local anesthesia and IV sedation, so patients stay awake during surgery. It says it avoids spinal fusions and hardware, and that it was the first U.S. spine surgery center to get FDA approval to use the Holmium YAG laser in spine surgery. It now claims more than 80,000 procedures (Bonati Spine Institute). Those are the company's own claims.

Regulatory and legal history

In March 2023 AHCA issued an emergency suspension order against the surgery center, alleging an unlicensed surgical technologist had applied sutures and a drain without a surgeon in the room, and that one had performed an entire spine surgery. Bonati disputed the account. An appeals court left the suspension in place, and the center reopened after a July 2023 settlement that included a $50,000 fine; the state agreed not to seek license revocation (ABC Action News).

The same station's 2023 investigation reported malpractice settlements and several past disciplinary actions by the Florida Board of Medicine. Bonati denied wrongdoing in those cases and had no hospital privileges at the time (ABC Action News).

In April 2024 Bonati and the institute sued AHCA for $500 million, alleging defamation, civil conspiracy and interference with the business (Becker's ASC Review, WFLA). The case was dismissed, and in April 2025 Bonati and the institute filed for Chapter 11 (Tampa Bay Business Journal, Tampa Bay Times).

Age, height and weight

Based on his sworn testimony that he was born in 1939, Bonati is about 86 or 87 in 2026. No reliable source gives his height or weight; the 5 feet 7 inches and 83 kg on the old page had no source and have been removed.

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Why there is no reliable figure

Bonati's businesses are private. Gross revenue figures show how much cash moved through the practice, not what he kept, and legal fees, settlements, a months-long shutdown and a Chapter 11 case all affect what is left. Until a credible outlet or the bankruptcy record reports his personal assets and debts, his net worth is unknown.