Andre Teixeira, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $460,900 of the $730,915 with a category attached, or 63.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in FL 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 851 payments — averaging $858.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$650K
- Johnson & Johnson$23K
- Medtronic$21K
- Stryker$16K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- Arthrex$6K
- plus $9K from 11 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $60,078 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Johnson & Johnson$300K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$54,1287%
- Speaking & faculty fees$125,42517%
- Travel & lodging$66,2529%
- Food & beverage$23,8043%
- Education$460,90063%
- Gifts$4060%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 740 | $650,281 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 17 | $22,695 |
| Medtronic | 38 | $20,883 |
| Stryker | 12 | $16,189 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $6,192 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $5,609 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 4 | $3,796 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $2,779 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $1,913 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 3 | $226 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $202 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Reel Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Biogen | 1 | $21 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$627,055
- DA VINCI SP$16,650
- Signia$7,796
- Reltone 200 Mg$3,739
- GLYCATE$3,739
- Reltone 400 Mg$3,739
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$3,600
- 1788$3,430
- OverStitch NXT Endoscopic Suturing System$2,500
- Harmonic$224
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$212
- ESOPHYX$152
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$150
- Sonicision$124
- Apollo ESG NXT System$123
- APOLLO ESG System$104
How this compares
$730,915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,569 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ursodiol | 24 | $54,281 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 43 | $791 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 20 | $239 |
| Gabapentin | 40 | $90 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Ocala
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
- Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
- Natan ZundelNorth Miami Beach$596K
- Christopher JohnsonClermont$555K
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.