Benjamin Jacobs, MD
Surgery · Gainesville, FLNPI 1992066062
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 39.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $504 and has fallen 57.7% since, to $213 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,683.
Across 11 payments — averaging $137.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$599
- Limflow Inc.$504
- Cook Medical LLC$316
- Stryker$54
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$21
- Johnson & Johnson$20
Across 6 payments — averaging $10,217 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.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$61K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$79753%
- Food & beverage$39026%
- Education$32722%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $599 |
| Limflow Inc. | 3 | $504 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $316 |
| Stryker | 1 | $54 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
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.
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$481
- Cook$316
- ENDURANT IIS$159
- HawkOne$136
- Endurant$113
How this compares
$1,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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.
Other surgery in Gainesville
- Isaac MotamarryGainesville$115K
- Martin RosenthalGainesville$82K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$731K
- Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
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.