Kenneth Meredith, MD
Surgical Oncology · Sarasota, FLNPI 1659329217
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (33.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 49.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $33,321 and has fallen 70.8% since, to $9,731 in 2025. Among surgical oncology 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 341 payments — averaging $332.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$56K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$36K
- Johnson & Johnson$7K
- Medtronic$4K
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- plus $6K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,34524%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,0004%
- Travel & lodging$23,56621%
- Food & beverage$19,01217%
- Education$38,03434%
- Gifts$2990%
- Entertainment$210%
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 | 87 | $56,398 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 52 | $35,754 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 73 | $6,735 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 42 | $4,280 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 18 | $2,059 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,961 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 5 | $1,435 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $1,190 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $628 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $539 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $286 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $282 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 3 | $249 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $235 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $141 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $99 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Creo Medical Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp. | 1 | $21 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $16 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$54,210
- CERTUS 140 MICROWAVE ABLATION SYSTEM$19,470
- Certus 140$9,113
- Signia$2,533
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$2,288
- HemoBlast Bellows$1,906
- ENSEAL Product Family$1,773
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,706
- HARMONIC Product Family$1,541
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,490
- EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$1,490
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,141
- GELPOINT$1,078
- VOYANT$1,078
- DA VINCI SP$762
- Emprint$541
- Nanoknife$460
- TISSEEL$263
- GELPOINT PATH$255
- EndoFlip$181
How this compares
$113,277 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 133 surgical oncology 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 oncology in Sarasota
- Neha GoelMiami$200K
- Jonathan ZagerTampa$191K
- Horacio AsbunMiami$161K
- Adrian Legaspi SauterHialeah$116K
- Pamela HodulTampa$94K
- Mehran HabibiMiami$73K
- Paul BloomstonFort Myers$68K
- Kristin RojasMiami$57K
- Douglas ReintgenTarpon Springs$55K
- Bassan AllanFort Myers$35K
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.