Jorge Vega, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Nashville, TNNPI 1265708432
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,179 of the $8,848 with a category attached, or 69.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,918, more than ten times the $479 reported in 2019. Among surgical critical care clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 41 payments — averaging $215.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$238
- Penumbra, Inc.$178
- Atricure, Inc.$166
- Kls-martin L.p.$160
- Derma Sciences, Inc.$140
- plus $499 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,10112%
- Food & beverage$1,33015%
- Education$6,17970%
- Other$2383%
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 | 18 | $7,466 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $238 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $160 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $112 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $50 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $30 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,803
- INTEGRA$238
- Penumbra Ruby Coil$178
- AMNIOEXCEL$140
- TCC-EZ$140
- PRIMATRIX$140
- IDRT$140
- OMNIGRAFT$140
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$125
How this compares
$8,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 36 surgical critical care providers in Tennessee.
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 critical care in Nashville
- Zachary TranNashville$4K
- Robert SinyardNashville$3K
- James ZebleyNashville$2K
- Mohammed AlmzayyenNashville$2K
- Luke JohnstonNashville$2K
- Patrick DuffyNashville$2K
- Jason YoungNashville$791
- Jeffrey ConnerNashville$341
- Kiran DyamenahalliNashville$301
- Keelin RocheNashville$63
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.