Jose Diaz, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Tampa, FLNPI 1144304262
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (58.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Acumed LLC accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,645 and has fallen 59.2% since, to $5,567 in 2025. Among surgical critical care clinicians in FL 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 109 payments — averaging $320.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$21K
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Acell, Inc.$2K
- KCI USA, Inc.$650
- plus $983 from 10 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $11,250 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.
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$89K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$24K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,1506%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,47559%
- Travel & lodging$3,54010%
- Food & beverage$4,72914%
- Education$4,00011%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 32 | $21,488 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 20 | $5,765 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $2,542 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 33 | $1,976 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $1,500 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $650 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $238 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $127 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $106 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $51 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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.
- RibLoc$20,935
- BioBridge$11,614
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Xerava$2,499
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,308
- TISSEEL$1,154
- ABTHERA$650
- FLOSEAL$231
- PROGEL$182
- LigaSure$162
- AcuTie II$135
- TRUMATCH$127
- No Related Product$111
- ProGrip$106
How this compares
$34,903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 132 surgical critical care 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 critical care in Tampa
- Richard SontchiTampa$5K
- Anthony KronfliTampa$2K
- Michelle MangoldTampa$2K
- Nir HusDelray Beach$443K
- Alfredo CordovaSarasota$314K
- Joshua CarsonGainesville$52K
- Anthony GielowLongwood$29K
- Chadwick SmithOrlando$23K
- Scott ZenoniMelbourne$22K
- Frederick MooreGainesville$20K
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.