Christopher Staudinger, MD
Surgery · Lake City, FLNPI 1619312659
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 48.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,502, 3.1 times the $3,710 reported in 2019.
Across 93 payments — averaging $264.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- CMR Surgical, Inc.$11K
- Acell, Inc.$868
- Smith+Nephew$228
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$147
- Conmed Corporation$129
- plus $281 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,00037%
- Travel & lodging$6,07225%
- Food & beverage$3,51414%
- Education$6,00024%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 59 | $11,895 |
| CMR Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $11,048 |
| Acell, Inc. | 7 | $868 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $228 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $129 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $26 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Versius Surgical System (Versius Plus)$11,048
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,543
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Restrata Wound Matrix$147
- AIRSEAL$105
How this compares
$24,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 54 | $290 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lake City
- 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
- Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
- Natan ZundelNorth Miami Beach$596K
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.