Charles Lago, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Plantation, FLNPI 1144219445
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 53 payments — averaging $77.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$885
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$641
- Davol Inc.$628
- Johnson & Johnson$240
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$220
- Medtronic$215
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1824%
- Food & beverage$3,86394%
- Education$752%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 17 | $885 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $641 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $628 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $240 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $220 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $215 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $188 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $154 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $153 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $140 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $134 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $119 |
| Merck | 1 | $115 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $80 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $76 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Phasix Mesh$559
- INTEGRA$463
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$456
- STRATAFIX$225
- Irrisept$188
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$185
- GI Genius$162
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$154
- PRIMATRIX$154
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$153
- Matriderm$140
- VISTASEAL$125
- Harmonic$125
- Echelon Flex$125
- Magseed$119
- Magtrace$119
- BRIDION$115
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$102
- ABTHERA ADVANCE$102
- NEOX$100
How this compares
$4,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 157 colon & rectal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lubiprostone | 17 | $1,910 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 31 | $536 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 54 | $303 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $226 |
| Metronidazole | 57 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Plantation
- Joseph CoralloPlantation$97K
- Mark SolimanAltamonte Springs$887K
- Avraham BelizonBoca Raton$642K
- Jorge MarcetTampa$627K
- Eduardo Parra DavilaWest Palm Beach$598K
- Matthew AlbertAltamonte Springs$573K
- Jaime SanchezTampa$532K
- Allen ChudzinskiTampa$386K
- Rahila EssaniCelebration$379K
- Henry LujanMiami$378K
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.