Has Fotios Vrionis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $63,572 in general payments to Fotios Vrionis, MD across 435 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 Fotios Vrionis, 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 Fotios Vrionis, 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.

Fotios Vrionis, MD

Neurological Surgery · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1083640403

Payments from drug & device makers

$63,572in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 435 payments — averaging $146.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$28K
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$20K
Medtronic$5K
Life Spine, Inc.$2K
Stryker$975
Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$595
plus $6K from 54 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,75010%
Travel & lodging$2,03711%
Food & beverage$13,50676%
Education$5143%

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
Abbott	132	$28,112
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	6	$20,463
Medtronic(2 entities)	68	$5,485
Life Spine, Inc.	2	$1,744
Stryker	9	$975
Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.	4	$595
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	11	$555
AbbVie	23	$534
Surgentec	1	$500
Biocomposites Inc	7	$404
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	20	$338
CSL Behring	16	$337
Baxter Healthcare	6	$301
Monteris Medical Corporation	2	$250
EMD Serono, Inc.	10	$194
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$181
Eisai Inc.	9	$180
Livanova USA, Inc.	5	$176
UCB, Inc.	7	$143
GT Medical Technologies, Inc	1	$142
Brainlab, Inc.	1	$128
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$122
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$104
Neurelis, Inc.	7	$101
Lundbeck LLC	4	$98
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$95
Zimmer Biomet	5	$89
Genentech USA, Inc.	5	$79
AstraZeneca	4	$78
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$76
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$69
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	2	$65
Microtransponder, Inc.	1	$57
Almatica Pharma LLC	3	$55
Lilly USA, LLC	3	$52
Grifols USA, LLC	3	$52
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	2	$46
SK Life Science, Inc.	2	$44
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$39
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$38
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	2	$36
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$35
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$35
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$34
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$33
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$31
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	1	$26
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$25
EBI, LLC	1	$23
Axonics, Inc.	1	$23
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Saol Therapeutics Inc.	1	$19
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$18
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$16
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$16
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$16
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$15
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$15
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14
Boston Scientific	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

$63,572 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$389,702

Medicare patients

372

Services billed

1,035

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.

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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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