Fotios Vrionis, MD
Neurological Surgery · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1083640403
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $13,506 of the $17,807 with a category attached, or 75.8%. 60 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 30.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,117 and has fallen 56.4% since, to $1,795 in 2025.
Across 408 payments — averaging $43.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Abbott$3K
- Life Spine, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$975
- Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$595
- Johnson & Johnson$555
- plus $6K from 54 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $1695.00 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.
- Abbott$25K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$20K
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.
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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,543
- Aileron$1,250
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$604
- O-ARM$504
- UNID_PASS$485
- Zap-X$458
- SYNCHROMEDII$421
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$365
- ESCALATE$270
- AERO$270
- TRITANIUM$270
- SERRATO$270
- ES2$270
- UNiD$267
- Neuroblate$250
- VIPER$232
- CD HORIZON$155
- FLOSEAL$149
- GammaTile$142
- Stimulan$142
How this compares
$17,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 556 neurological 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 neurological surgery in Boca Raton
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
- Timothy OconnorBoca Raton$156K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
- John MainOcala$2.8M
- Michael WangMiami$2.2M
- Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
- Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
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.