Joseph Bianchi, MD
Surgery · Daytona Beach, FLNPI 1760487383
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $49,778 of the $64,110 with a category attached, or 77.6%. Merit Medical Systems Inc accounts for 77.7% of it on its own, with 53 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $50,203 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $629 in 2025. 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 170 payments — averaging $377.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$50K
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Novartis$210
- Johnson & Johnson$186
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$173
- plus $2K from 48 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,8479%
- Food & beverage$4,4767%
- Education$4,0006%
- Gifts$90%
- Other$49,77878%
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.
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$4,572
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,920
- LIBTAYO$121
- myRisk$102
- KEYTRUDA$101
How this compares
$64,110 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $462 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $265 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Daytona Beach
- Bruce RamshawDaytona Beach$78K
- 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
- Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
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.