Cristiano Alpendre, MD
Surgery · Brandon, FLNPI 1376865261
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (38.9%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 43.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,012, more than ten times the $442 reported in 2019. 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 114 payments — averaging $338.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- Johnson & Johnson$15K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$663
- TELA Bio, Inc.$637
- Davol Inc.$500
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,04036%
- Travel & lodging$2,3476%
- Food & beverage$6,80618%
- Education$15,02039%
- Other$3781%
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 | 25 | $16,643 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 17 | $15,107 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 20 | $3,065 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $663 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $637 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $500 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $478 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $324 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $280 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $266 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $132 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $101 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $36 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Bolder Surgical 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$14,850
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- INTEGRA$908
- VISTASEAL$800
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$535
- Echelon Flex$369
- Phasix Mesh$308
- Signia$301
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$258
- PRIMATRIX$258
- MICROMATRIX$245
- Intracept$173
- AIRSEAL$146
- PerClot$131
- Echelon Circular$120
- Harmonic$120
- EleVision$112
- Sonicision$110
- HARMONIC Product Family$105
- Reprocessing$105
How this compares
$38,592 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 60 | $578 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $193 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Brandon
- 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.