Diego Velarde, MD
Surgery · Rockledge, FLNPI 1215959721
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,000 of the $7,251 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Distalmotion US accounts for 84.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,138 and has fallen 92.0% since, to $491 in 2025.
Across 17 payments — averaging $426.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Distalmotion US$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$893
- Conmed Corporation$105
- AbbVie$69
- Johnson & Johnson$59
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$19
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,00083%
- Travel & lodging$3735%
- Food & beverage$72710%
- Education$1512%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Distalmotion US | 2 | $6,106 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $893 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $105 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $69 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $59 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$6,106
- Da Vinci Surgical System$635
How this compares
$7,251 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 84 | $623 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 18 | $293 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Rockledge
- 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.