Kandace Kichler
Surgery · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1861768848
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 115 payments — averaging $68.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Covidien LP$1K
- Novo Nordisk$572
- Johnson & Johnson$264
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95012%
- Travel & lodging$2,04726%
- Food & beverage$4,70160%
- Education$1612%
- Gifts$90%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 16 | $2,152 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $1,424 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 35 | $1,210 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $1,014 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $572 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $264 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $221 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $208 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 7 | $135 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $117 |
| Vivus LLC | 5 | $96 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 5 | $90 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $71 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $66 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Avanos Medical | 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.
How this compares
$7,868 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,569 surgery providers in Florida.
Other surgery in Miami Beach
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Steven FagienBoca Raton$1.6M
- John MullinaxTampa$1.5M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Panagiotis SarantosGainesville$1.3M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Christopher DucoinTampa$1.1M
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Salvatore DocimoTampa$950K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.