Dana Sands, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Weston, FLNPI 1114981412
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $11,856 of the $15,067 with a category attached, or 78.7%. Applied Medical Resources Corporation accounts for 72.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,774, 2.6 times the $3,013 reported in 2019.
Across 41 payments — averaging $367.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$11K
- Covidien LP$3K
- Conmed Corporation$322
- Medtronic$273
- AbbVie$184
- Baxter Healthcare$155
- plus $243 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,85679%
- Travel & lodging$1,57510%
- Food & beverage$1,63611%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 12 | $10,876 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $3,013 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $322 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $273 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $184 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $155 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $119 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $72 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Dentsply IH AB | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Gelport Laparoscopic System$10,561
- AIRSEAL$275
How this compares
$15,067 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 157 colon & rectal 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 colon & rectal surgery in Weston
- Steven WexnerWeston$333K
- Giovanna da Silva SouthwickWeston$33K
- Eric WeissWeston$13K
- Mark SolimanAltamonte Springs$872K
- Eduardo Parra DavilaWest Palm Beach$577K
- Matthew AlbertAltamonte Springs$514K
- Avraham BelizonBoca Raton$482K
- Rahila EssaniCelebration$379K
- Henry LujanMiami$378K
- Allen ChudzinskiTampa$252K
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.