Christopher Ducoin, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (37.3%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 61.3% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among 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.
Across 1,039 payments — averaging $777.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$495K
- Johnson & Johnson$82K
- Medtronic$76K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$55K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$42K
- Boston Scientific$32K
- plus $26K from 17 others
Across 43 payments — averaging $6381.96 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.
- Johnson & Johnson$166K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$88K
- Medtronic$11K
- Covidien LP$10K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$178,17722%
- Speaking & faculty fees$205,72625%
- Travel & lodging$95,41112%
- Food & beverage$27,4853%
- Education$301,28337%
- Gifts$680%
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 | 682 | $495,465 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 53 | $81,518 |
| Medtronic | 123 | $75,655 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 49 | $54,617 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 51 | $42,255 |
| Boston Scientific | 33 | $32,334 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $9,571 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 5 | $7,068 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $5,188 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $1,912 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $567 |
| BD | 1 | $520 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $344 |
| Stryker | 2 | $256 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $229 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $140 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $128 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $56 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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$449,760
- Echelon Circular$108,217
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$101,564
- Echelon Flex$100,606
- DERMABOND$95,592
- INTEGRA$59,722
- DA VINCI SP$39,360
- OMNIGRAFT$25,312
- SPYGLASS$22,636
- AbsorbaTack$9,391
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$7,542
- Enseal$5,555
- Enseal X1$4,668
- Harmonic$4,545
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$4,545
- Sonicision$4,075
- Signia$3,906
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$2,835
- PRIMATRIX$2,318
- TISSEEL$1,847
How this compares
$808,150 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 Tampa
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Salvatore DocimoTampa$537K
- Sharona RossTampa$271K
- Vernon SondakTampa$220K
- Adham SaadTampa$167K
- Colby ClarkTampa$110K
- Iswanto SucandyTampa$103K
- Joseph SujkaTampa$101K
- Gopal GrandhigeTampa$93K
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.