Paul Kuo, MD
Surgery · Sarasota, FLNPI 1841374758
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,000 of the $17,096 with a category attached, or 76.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $11,257 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $582 in 2025.
Across 53 payments — averaging $322.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medtronic$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$424
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$127
- Stryker$35
- Davol Inc.$33
- plus $22 from 1 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $10,000 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$20K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,40220%
- Food & beverage$6944%
- Education$13,00076%
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 | 22 | $15,218 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $1,237 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $424 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Stryker | 1 | $35 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,036
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- ProGrip$745
- AdvantageRib$346
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$127
How this compares
$17,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other surgery in Sarasota
- 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
- Anthony GonzalezMiami$686K
- Natan ZundelNorth Miami Beach$596K
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.