Benjamin Veenstra, MD
Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1427286822
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $35,300 of the $45,283 with a category attached, or 78.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $18,356 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $789 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 89 payments — averaging $508.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$43K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Conmed Corporation$341
- Davol Inc.$214
- Baxter Healthcare$198
- Medtronic$166
- plus $264 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2503%
- Travel & lodging$3,4628%
- Food & beverage$5,27212%
- Education$35,30078%
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 | 63 | $43,087 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,013 |
| Conmed Corporation | 5 | $341 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $214 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $198 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $166 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $52 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
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$42,332
- LINX Reflux Management System$730
- EndoFlip$166
- SEAMGUARD$143
- PHASIX$125
- TISSEEL$117
How this compares
$45,283 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Jacksonville
- Kenneth JonesJacksonville$267K
- Steven HodgettJacksonville$148K
- Thea PriceJacksonville$115K
- Craig MorgenthalJacksonville$106K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
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.