Has Frank Avilucea, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $190,946 in general payments to Frank Avilucea, MD across 306 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 Frank Avilucea, 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 Frank Avilucea, 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.

Frank Avilucea, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Orlando, FLNPI 1548403389

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 49.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $63,653 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $2,575 in 2025.

$190,946in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 306 payments — averaging $624.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$95K
Zimmer Biomet$78K
Synthes USA Products LLC$8K
Stryker$5K
Globus Medical$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$95,16350%
Speaking & faculty fees$56,23829%
Travel & lodging$23,43012%
Food & beverage$16,0718%
Education$460%

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
Smith+Nephew	132	$94,704
Zimmer Biomet	88	$77,612
Synthes USA Products LLC	7	$8,026
Stryker	43	$5,079
Globus Medical	10	$2,425
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$1,196
Johnson & Johnson	7	$816
Biocomposites Inc	4	$289
ERMI LLC	4	$227
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$184
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$140
Reel Surgical, Inc.	1	$105
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$75
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$34
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$22
Acumed LLC	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

$190,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 65 orthopaedic trauma providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$252,916

Medicare patients

347

Services billed

1,660

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	46	$311
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	27	$217
Methocarbamol	18	$132
Methylprednisolone	17	$125
Meloxicam	29	$96
Cephalexin	14	$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Kenneth KovalOrlando$321K
Mohamed ShaathOrlando$303K
Barrett HawkinsOrlando$26K
Jonathan YawmanOrlando$9K
Edward PerezFt Lauderdale$981K
Hassan MirTemple Terrace$877K
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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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