David Becnel, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Gainesville, FLNPI 1609138098
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $48,500 of the $63,553 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $30,437 and has fallen 61.9% since, to $11,601 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 88 payments — averaging $722.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$60K
- Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Pulmonx Corporation$881
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$115
- Philips North America LLC$97
- plus $239 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,0008%
- Travel & lodging$6,06810%
- Food & beverage$3,9386%
- Education$48,50076%
- Gifts$470%
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 | 57 | $60,099 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $1,089 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $1,034 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $881 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $97 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $68 |
| Amgen | 2 | $44 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $34 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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$52,327
- ION$6,000
- DA VINCI SP$1,000
- Monarch Platform$988
- Spin$940
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$811
- Cios Spin$105
How this compares
$63,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 618 critical care medicine 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 critical care medicine in Gainesville
- Ali AtayaGainesville$63K
- Azra BihoracGainesville$10K
- Ragai MeenaGainesville$9K
- Charles HobsonGainesville$6K
- Christopher HardenGainesville$6K
- Louis GuzziOrlando$635K
- Fortune AlabiKissimmee$587K
- Debabrata BandyopadhyayTampa$398K
- Fred UmehKissimmee$371K
- Amit TandonWesley Chapel$338K
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.