Javier Garcia-Bengochea
Neurological Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1134174550
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $163,554 of the $200,713 with a category attached, or 81.5%. Mirus, LLC accounts for 62.8% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $130,131 and has fallen 86.8% since, to $17,220 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 63 payments — averaging $3185.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mirus, LLC$126K
- Globus Medical$66K
- Team 1, LLC$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Arthrex$1K
- Medtronic$810
- plus $727 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$163,55481%
- Consulting fees$27,60014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$160%
- Travel & lodging$6,2543%
- Food & beverage$2,0901%
- Education$1,2001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mirus, LLC | 1 | $126,000 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 27 | $66,139 |
| Team 1, LLC | 2 | $3,664 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,126 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $1,248 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $810 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $516 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 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.
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$126,000
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$126,000
- NTS$12,898
- Excelsius - GPS$10,314
- Excavation$9,594
- NuVasive$7,082
- MULTIPLE$1,522
- Ant-Cer II$330
- LIF$328
- Pulse$194
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$135
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$124
- ReActiv8$117
- Timberline MPF$112
- MazorX - Renaissance$104
How this compares
$200,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
Other neurological surgery in Jacksonville
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
- Ricardo HanelJacksonville$1.2M
- Eric NottmeierJacksonville$959K
- Ali ChahlaviJacksonville$855K
- Bernard GuiotJacksonville$269K
- Adam PolifkaJacksonville$227K
- Bradley WallaceJacksonville$169K
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.