Industry payments to physicians · Florida · 2024

Florida

In Florida, drug and device makers reported $203M in general payments to 80,972 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,513 each — plus $1.03B tied to research and $127M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$203M

general payments

80,972

covered recipients paid

$2,513

mean per physician

Top specialties in Florida

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $30M $30,416/phys

Neurological Surgery $8M $19,130/phys

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $7M $20,474/phys

Dermatology $6M $7,272/phys

Neurology $6M $6,722/phys

Psychiatry $6M $5,930/phys

Hematology & Oncology $6M $10,754/phys

Family $6M $606/phys

Physician Assistant $5M $1,042/phys

Ophthalmology $5M $4,772/phys

Gastroenterology $5M $4,664/phys

Medical Oncology $5M $11,440/phys

Highest-paid physicians in Florida

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Mark Frankle Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace · top payer: ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $7M

Anthony Nunez Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orlando · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $5M

Lee Kaplan Sports Medicine · Miami · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $3M

Roy Sanders Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $2M

Jorge Orbay-Cerrato Hand Surgery · Miami · top payer: Skeletal Dynamics Inc $2M

George Haidukewych Orthopaedic Surgery · Orlando · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M

Richard Hynes Orthopaedic Surgery · Melbourne · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $2M

Neil Love Medical Oncology · Miami · top payer: Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $1M

Martin Roche Orthopaedic Surgery · Ft. Lauderdale · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M

Sergio Kuttler Endodontics · Plantation · top payer: Tulsa Dental Products LLC $1M

Brian Snelling Neurological Surgery · Boca Raton · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $1M

Eric Peterson Neurological Surgery · Miami · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $1M

Bryan Springer Orthopaedic Surgery · Jacksonville · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M

Martin Dietrich Hematology & Oncology · Rockledge · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1M

Andrew Cutler Psychiatry · Lakewood Ranch · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $1M

Haytham Elgammal Internal Medicine · Miami · top payer: INTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. $883,349

Kenneth Gustke Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace · top payer: Stryker Corporation $857,284

Carlos Lavernia Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Miami · top payer: Stryker Corporation $856,800

Kim Manwaring Neurological Surgery · Orlando · top payer: Stryker Corporation $819,411

Patrick Smith Sports Medicine · Naples · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $727,010

Jonathan Levy Orthopaedic Surgery · Boca Raton · top payer: ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $710,182

Thomas Bernasek Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $644,308

Richard Jackson Psychiatry · Boca Raton · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $629,695

Mark Mighell Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace · top payer: Stryker Corporation $623,932

Jorge Acevedo Orthopaedic Surgery · Jacksonville · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $593,336

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Florida — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.