Has Elizabeth Dovec, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $870,471 in general payments to Elizabeth Dovec, MD across 593 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Elizabeth Dovec, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Elizabeth Dovec, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Elizabeth Dovec, MD

Surgery · Lakeland, FLNPI 1962706606

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $660,756 of the $870,471 with a category attached, or 75.9%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 59.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $220,791 and has fallen 72.2% since, to $61,436 in 2025. Among surgery 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.

$870,471in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 593 payments — averaging $1467.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$521K
Baxter Healthcare$196K
Johnson & Johnson$94K
Covidien LP$18K
Medtronic$14K
Stryker$13K
plus $15K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$88,87510%
Consulting fees$660,75676%
Speaking & faculty fees$69,3488%
Travel & lodging$38,9224%
Food & beverage$12,5381%
Education$320%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	299	$520,799
Baxter Healthcare	95	$195,765
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	101	$93,728
Covidien LP	22	$17,670
Medtronic	27	$14,187
Stryker	19	$13,468
Aesculap, Inc.	11	$12,045
Standard Bariatrics, Inc.	6	$1,089
Steris Corporation	2	$971
Novo Nordisk	4	$325
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.	1	$151
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$132
Intuitive Surgical	1	$50
Cardinal Health 200 LLC	1	$39
Mentor Worldwide LLC	1	$35
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17

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.

ECHELON ENDOPATH$605,466
Echelon Flex$514,697
STRATAFIX$233,466
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$202,102
HARMONIC Product Family$169,089
ENSEAL Product Family$168,213
No Related Product$146,082
Harmonic$81,638
Enseal$65,468
PERI-STRIPS DRY$47,280
TISSEEL$33,719
FLOSEAL$22,604
Sonicision$17,000
NA$11,810
1688$10,456
S3$4,000
VISTASEAL$1,273
Signia$1,058
HarmonyAIR$971
HARMONY$971

How this compares

$870,471 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,569 surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$23,120

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
MounjaroTirzepatide	12	$13,676
Naltrexone Hcl	18	$303
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	30	$246
Pantoprazole Sodium	12	$145

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Lakeland

Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
Andre TeixeiraOcala$731K
Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
Natan ZundelNorth Miami Beach$596K
Christopher JohnsonClermont$555K

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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.

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