Matthew Tufts, MD
Surgery · Port Charlotte, FLNPI 1306284245
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 69 payments — averaging $119.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- Johnson & Johnson$281
- Lexington Medical, Inc.$85
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$76
- plus $272 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5016%
- Food & beverage$2,92136%
- Education$4,80558%
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 | 25 | $5,730 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 18 | $1,479 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $281 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $76 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $24 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
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
$8,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 15 | $10,086 |
| Sucralfate | 111 | $3,357 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 69 | $756 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 14 | $674 |
| Omeprazole | 94 | $542 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 31 | $386 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 12 | $259 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 83 | $132 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 20 | $106 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 11 | $90 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $87 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $73 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 16 | $70 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $36 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 12 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Port Charlotte
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.