Jose Erbella, MD
Surgery · Bradenton, FLNPI 1902891617
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (39.1%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.8% of it on its own, with 37 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $214,608, more than ten times the $669 reported in 2019. Among surgery 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 846 payments — averaging $849.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$573K
- Stability Biologics, LLC$118K
- Baxter Healthcare$25K
- Acell, Inc.$417
- Davol Inc.$377
- Lexington Medical, Inc.$307
- plus $2K from 32 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $20,000 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.
- Acell, Inc.$20K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$190,73027%
- Speaking & faculty fees$170,25024%
- Travel & lodging$50,5357%
- Food & beverage$26,1204%
- Education$280,63739%
- Gifts$1690%
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 | 693 | $573,086 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 29 | $117,911 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 40 | $24,531 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $417 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $377 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $307 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $183 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $178 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 6 | $163 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $149 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $84 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $82 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $80 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $69 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $64 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Merck | 2 | $49 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $47 |
| Stryker | 2 | $47 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $42 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $33 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Amgen | 2 | $27 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Impedimed, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$528,663
- DA VINCI SP$35,600
- TISSEEL$24,080
- Aeon Endostapler & Echelon Flex Powered Stapler$307
- PHASIX$141
- PerClot$133
How this compares
$718,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,569 surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 12 | $1,914 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 261 | $568 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $228 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 43 | $222 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 16 | $170 |
| Metronidazole | 52 | $125 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $101 |
| Nystatin | 11 | $90 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $82 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 19 | $64 |
| Levofloxacin | 12 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bradenton
- Stelios RekkasBradenton$141K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$731K
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
- Natan ZundelNorth Miami Beach$596K
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.