Carlos Bello, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (57.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $15,445 and has fallen 76.8% since, to $3,581 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $220.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$19K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Conmed Corporation$140
- Vertex$122
- Johnson & Johnson$121
- Medtronic$91
- plus $66 from 3 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $11,016 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$99K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,20624%
- Food & beverage$4,07219%
- Education$12,50057%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 69 | $18,894 |
| Davol Inc. | 20 | $2,362 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $140 |
| Vertex | 1 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $121 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $91 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$12,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,077
- Phasix Mesh$1,444
- DA VINCI SP$162
- JOURNAVX$122
- STRATAFIX$121
How this compares
$21,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 45 | $247 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 18 | $169 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Miami
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
- Jose MartinezMiami$186K
- Michael RendaMiami$90K
- 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
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.