Edward Becker, MD
Sports Medicine · Lithia, FLNPI 1124162789
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 139 payments — averaging $66.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$825
- Neotract Inc.$276
- plus $885 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,34615%
- Food & beverage$7,78384%
- Education$1502%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 41 | $3,134 |
| Smith+Nephew | 24 | $1,529 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 32 | $1,398 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $1,233 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 6 | $825 |
| Neotract Inc. | 2 | $276 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $163 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $150 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Arcuro Medical Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $68 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $39 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- MAKO$871
- HOFFMANN$366
- UroLift$276
- CORI$255
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$181
- T-Fix$170
- Journey II BCS$170
- PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$170
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$170
- 1688 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$164
- X3$162
- ANATO$156
- Physio-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$151
- Acufex$143
- LENS 4K$140
- REUNION$127
- CINCHLOCK$124
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$122
- TRIATHLON$114
- ABG$104
How this compares
$9,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 402 sports 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 120 | $2,741 |
| Meloxicam | 117 | $260 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $116 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $103 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $98 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Lithia
- Lee KaplanMiami$11.3M
- Patrick SmithNaples$3.7M
- Ryan SimovitchWest Palm Beach$1.1M
- Adam AnzGulf Breeze$960K
- Bruce LevyOrlando$816K
- Gautam YagnikMiami$458K
- Carl DilellaVero Beach$384K
- William CottrellClearwater$378K
- Stanton LongeneckerJacksonville$330K
- Jorge GonzalezFort Lauderdale$300K
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.