Christopher Sforzo, MD
Hand Surgery · Sarasota, FLNPI 1679544142
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 70.4% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,238, more than ten times the $1,121 reported in 2019.
Across 173 payments — averaging $113.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$14K
- Arthrex$3K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$894
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$430
- Stryker$413
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$157
- plus $861 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,71349%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00010%
- Travel & lodging$2,00010%
- Food & beverage$5,26427%
- Education$6703%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 61 | $13,838 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $3,054 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 28 | $894 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 18 | $430 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 9 | $413 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 13 | $157 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $149 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $115 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $65 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $64 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $58 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $50 |
| Axogen | 2 | $43 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 4 | $38 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 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.
- AETOS Shoulder System$11,800
- EVOS$10,671
- TWINFIX$10,671
- Q-FIX$130
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$130
- REUNION$115
- N/A$108
How this compares
$19,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 173 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 19 | $547 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $350 |
| Methylprednisolone | 45 | $240 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 15 | $81 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $59 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $50 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Sarasota
- Christopher DillinghamSarasota$7K
- Jorge Orbay-CerratoMiami$12.5M
- Peter EvansStuart$525K
- Nirav GuptaOcala$491K
- Francisco RubioMiami$345K
- Justin ZumstegOrlando$133K
- Maria-Carolina Orbay AranMiami$108K
- Paul PatersonVero Beach$104K
- Helen Hui-ChouMiami$95K
- Philipp StreubelWeston$81K
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.