Christopher Salgado, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (45.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Sanara Medtech Inc. accounts for 66.1% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $19,325 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $382 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 186 payments — averaging $188.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$23K
- AbbVie$6K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$560
- Kerecis Limited$360
- Axogen$338
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,7008%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,77545%
- Travel & lodging$5,73216%
- Food & beverage$10,88731%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 49 | $23,184 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 72 | $6,360 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 9 | $2,416 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $560 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $360 |
| Axogen | 4 | $338 |
| Stryker | 2 | $313 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 6 | $221 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $214 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $186 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $106 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $74 |
| Biopro, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $42 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- CellerateRx$22,424
- ALLODERM$2,033
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,593
- NATRELLE$1,436
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$699
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$236
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$233
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$233
- SurgX$214
- Xperience$214
- BlastX$214
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$173
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$159
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$141
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$141
- PRIMATRIX$141
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$141
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$141
- MAKO$140
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$140
How this compares
$35,094 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 16 | $152 |
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.