Panagiotis Sarantos, MD
Surgery · Gainesville, FLNPI 1750389474
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,000 of the $12,225 with a category attached, or 65.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $8,529 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $70 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $330.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$123
- Conmed Corporation$87
- Baxter Healthcare$35
- Novapproach Spine, LLC$34
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$33
- plus $116 from 6 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $326,721 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Novapproach Spine, LLC$1.3M
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,71022%
- Food & beverage$1,50212%
- Education$8,00065%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 21 | $11,798 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $87 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $35 |
| Novapproach Spine, LLC | 3 | $34 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$12,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 125 | $818 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 38 | $165 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Gainesville
- Isaac MotamarryGainesville$115K
- Martin RosenthalGainesville$82K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$731K
- Jose ErbellaBradenton$718K
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.