Edson Franco, MD
Transplant Surgery · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1144245101
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,194 of the $8,735 with a category attached, or 82.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,932 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $25 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $349.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- AbbVie$251
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$140
- Gilead$120
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$103
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$100
- plus $304 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5817%
- Food & beverage$96011%
- Education$7,19482%
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 | 11 | $7,717 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $251 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $140 |
| Gilead | 1 | $120 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $100 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $83 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $26 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
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$7,562
- Mavyret$231
- Vemlidy$120
- OCALIVA$103
How this compares
$8,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 53 transplant 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 transplant surgery in Ft Lauderdale
- Scott SilvestryOrlando$661K
- Amy LuTampa$133K
- Eduardo AlsinaTampa$121K
- Kiran DhanireddyTampa$40K
- Vijay SubramanianTampa$22K
- Alfred TectorMiami$19K
- Nicole LooJacksonville$17K
- Wen XiePensacola$16K
- Lawrence ChinOrlando$12K
- William KendallLargo$11K
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.