James Jakub, MD
Surgical Oncology · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1447243431
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (45.5%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 67.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,702 and has fallen 81.0% since, to $702 in 2025.
Across 63 payments — averaging $190.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Novartis$3K
- Axogen$542
- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.$470
- Medtronic$44
- Merck$18
Across 14 payments — averaging $8720.14 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.
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$122K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,84024%
- Travel & lodging$5,46745%
- Food & beverage$1,82115%
- Education$1,89416%
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 | 52 | $8,108 |
| Novartis | 1 | $2,840 |
| Axogen | 3 | $542 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $470 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $44 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
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$5,562
- MEKINIST$2,840
- TAFINLAR$2,840
- DA VINCI SP$1,616
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$518
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$518
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$518
- Amtagvi$295
How this compares
$12,022 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 133 surgical oncology 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 surgical oncology in Jacksonville
- William SumnerJacksonville$11K
- Konstantinos ChouliarasJacksonville$5K
- Laila SamiianJacksonville$5K
- Emmanuel GabrielJacksonville$4K
- Carol Bowen-WellsJacksonville$4K
- Neha GoelMiami$200K
- Jonathan ZagerTampa$191K
- Horacio AsbunMiami$161K
- Adrian Legaspi SauterHialeah$116K
- Kenneth MeredithSarasota$113K
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.