Karel Calero, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Tampa, FLNPI 1194979245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (48.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,073 and has fallen 77.3% since, to $924 in 2025.
Across 26 payments — averaging $237.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$693
- Boehringer Ingelheim$244
- ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$187
- Philips North America LLC$74
- Baxter Healthcare$24
- plus $20 from 1 others
Across 74 payments — averaging $7246.87 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.
- Incyte Corporation$342K
- Spiration, Inc.$140K
- Baxter Healthcare$50K
- Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,76929%
- Food & beverage$1,40723%
- Education$3,00049%
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 | 13 | $4,934 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 7 | $693 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $244 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $187 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $24 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- ION$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,855
- Inspire$669
- remede System$187
- OFEV$122
How this compares
$6,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 953 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 11 | $143,811 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 24 | $19,454 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 12 | $4,723 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 14 | $496 |
| Azithromycin | 11 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev | $244 | $143,81111 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 953 pulmonary disease providers in Florida.
Other pulmonary disease in Tampa
- Ricardo Restrepo-JaramilloTampa$555K
- Mark RumbakTampa$528K
- Domenick ReinaTampa$469K
- Michael AlvarezTampa$202K
- Nirav PatelTampa$105K
- Franck RahaghiWeston$1.2M
- Michael OttEglin Afb$909K
- Ali JiwaniOrlando$859K
- Anas HadehWeston$800K
- Jennifer FultonJacksonville$665K
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.