Has Carlos Lavernia, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,446,311 in general payments to Carlos Lavernia, MD across 113 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Carlos Lavernia, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Carlos Lavernia, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Carlos Lavernia, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1255326179

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $5,361,788 of the $5,446,311 with a category attached, or 98.4%. Stryker accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic 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.

$5,446,311in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $48,197 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$5.4M
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$750
Smith+Nephew$148
Zimmer Biomet$148
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$122
Amgen$121

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$5,361,78898%
Consulting fees$79,8751%
Travel & lodging$3,0050%
Food & beverage$1,6430%

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
Stryker	107	$5,445,021
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.	1	$750
Smith+Nephew	1	$148
Zimmer Biomet	2	$148
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$122
Amgen	1	$121

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.

How this compares

$5,446,311 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 96 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$120,071

Medicare patients

199

Services billed

1,187

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
Celecoxib	96	$3,156
Ondansetron Hcl	82	$654
Tramadol Hcl	84	$627
Omeprazole	76	$378
Oxycodone Hcl	76	$343
Cefadroxil	43	$307
Cephalexin	16	$122
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	14	$114
Lorazepam	70	$103
Meloxicam	27	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Miami

Juan SuarezMiami$3.9M
Raul GostheMiami$252K
Michele D'apuzzoMiami$55K
Alexander van der VenMiami$28K
Cameron ForemanMiami$24K
Aditya DerasariMiami$12K
Yoav ZviMiami$10K
David Silva IacobelliMiami$6K
John RedmondJacksonville$987K
Gavan DuffyJacksonville$543K

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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.

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