Michael Garcia, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple Terrace, FLNPI 1710163886
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 668 payments — averaging $1666.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$1.1M
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$29K
- Axogen$4K
- Polynovo North America LLC$3K
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$2K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $7K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$563,51151%
- Consulting fees$82,0007%
- Speaking & faculty fees$436,74939%
- Travel & lodging$11,7331%
- Food & beverage$17,7462%
- Education$5700%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 422 | $1,066,653 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 18 | $29,255 |
| Axogen | 14 | $3,973 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 46 | $2,621 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 29 | $2,169 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,467 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $1,300 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 12 | $1,217 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 35 | $810 |
| Pylant Medical | 5 | $487 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 14 | $484 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $272 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 3 | $251 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $250 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $238 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $222 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $208 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $194 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $152 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $148 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $97 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $88 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $73 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $9 |
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.
- ARTHREX$2,670,507
- XIAFLEX$29,012
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA MINI FRAGMENT$24,912
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST MINI FRAGMENT$4,921
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$3,019
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$2,465
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$2,465
- Novosorb BTM$1,858
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$1,575
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$1,575
- CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF$1,000
- EXOS$650
- INTEGRA$423
- PRIMATRIX$283
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$283
- Physio-Stim$261
- Geminus$250
- Align$250
- IJS$250
- Implate$250
How this compares
$1,113,521 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 77 | $2,321 |
| Celecoxib | 90 | $1,249 |
| Lidocaine | 15 | $1,070 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 72 | $354 |
| Meloxicam | 98 | $261 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $254 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 93 | $223 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Temple Terrace
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31.4M
- David WatsonTemple Terrace$21M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
- Kenneth GustkeTemple Terrace$5.3M
- Mark MighellTemple Terrace$4.4M
- John SmallTemple Terrace$868K
- Christopher BakerTemple Terrace$732K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$35M
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.