Fernando Bayron Velez, MD
Surgery · Lauderdale Lakes, FLNPI 1891783080
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 262 payments — averaging $173.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$38K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$918
- Novo Nordisk$569
- Johnson & Johnson$432
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6952%
- Travel & lodging$3,8318%
- Food & beverage$10,53623%
- Education$30,00066%
- Gifts$3431%
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 | 116 | $38,208 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 39 | $2,266 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 18 | $1,103 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $918 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $569 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $432 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $355 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 4 | $250 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $143 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Vertex | 1 | $115 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $107 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $74 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Abbott | 2 | $49 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $29 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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$35,266
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,377
- LINX Reflux Management System$762
- NEOX$514
- CLARIX$514
- VISTASEAL$206
- Megadyne$206
- Phasix Mesh$131
- Saxenda$125
- JOURNAVX$115
- Harmonic$106
- STRATAFIX$100
How this compares
$45,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $114 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 21 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lauderdale Lakes
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Steven FagienBoca Raton$1.6M
- John MullinaxTampa$1.5M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Panagiotis SarantosGainesville$1.3M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Christopher DucoinTampa$1.1M
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Salvatore DocimoTampa$950K
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.