Michael Baptista, MD
General Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1255462420
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $6,848 of the $9,071 with a category attached, or 75.5%. Reshape Lifesciences Inc. accounts for 81.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,320 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $118 in 2025. Among general surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 47 payments — averaging $193.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Reshape Lifesciences Inc.$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$717
- AbbVie$385
- Davol Inc.$169
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$105
- Boston Scientific$88
- plus $190 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,84875%
- Food & beverage$2,16524%
- Entertainment$581%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 17 | $7,419 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $717 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $385 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $88 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 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
$9,071 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 54 general 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Jacksonville
- Sohrab AfshariJacksonville$13
- James PerinJacksonville$0
- Bharti JasraJacksonville$0
- Paul WizmanBoca Raton$40K
- Mauricio HernandezMiami$20K
- Braulio SabatesCoral Gables$13K
- Juan SalazarCoral Gables$3K
- Roberto ComperatoreHialeah$3K
- Edgar RodasFort Lauderdale$2K
- Orlando PuenteMiami$1K
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.