Faris Azar, MD
Surgery · Palm Beach Gardens, FLNPI 1215279625
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,686 of the $2,343 with a category attached, or 72.0%. CSL Behring accounts for 72.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,706 and has fallen 83.9% since, to $275 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,683.
Across 22 payments — averaging $106.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$2K
- TEI Biosciences Inc$155
- Atricure, Inc.$136
- UCB, Inc.$77
- Intuitive Surgical$74
- Pfizer$41
- plus $154 from 8 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $5971.09 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Hyperfine Operations, Inc.$31K
- CSL Behring$17K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,68672%
- Food & beverage$65728%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 5 | $1,706 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $155 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $74 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $41 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $15 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$2,343 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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.
Other surgery in Palm Beach Gardens
- 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.