Manuel Mendez, MD
Vascular Surgery · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1932134467
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $47.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$927
- Surmodics, Inc.$486
- Philips North America LLC$257
- Medtronic$125
- plus $388 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76913%
- Food & beverage$5,04987%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 72 | $2,055 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $1,580 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $927 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 9 | $486 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $257 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $64 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Indigo System$1,320
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$370
- Sublime Radial Access 018 RX PTA Dilatation Catheter$370
- Sublime Radial Access Guide Sheath$370
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$370
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$370
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$311
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$289
- ICAST COVERED STENT SYSTEM, 6MMX22MMX120CM$239
- Cook Medical Aortic Intervention$139
- ROSEN$133
- Penumbra System$125
- (5044) MCOT$123
- Zilver PTX$122
- Cook Celect$121
- Cook Medical Zilver PTX$120
- Zilver Vena$118
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$111
How this compares
$5,818 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 385 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 110 | $2,331 |
| Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine | 28 | $380 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 81 | $337 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $263 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in West Palm Beach
- Julio SanguilyWest Palm Beach$95K
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Erin MooreJacksonville$488K
- Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
- Woongchae LeeBoca Raton$414K
- Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$396K
- Murray ShamesTampa$354K
- Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$344K
- Martin BackTampa$303K
- Rajesh MalikNaples$296K
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.