Has Peter Candelora, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $33,656 in general payments to Peter Candelora, MD across 45 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Peter Candelora, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Peter Candelora, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Peter Candelora, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · New Port Richey, FLNPI 1376547729

Payments from drug & device makers

$33,656in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $747.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$30K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Arthrex$760
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$527
Omnilife Science, Inc$274
MVP Orthopedics Inc$84
plus $97 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,36738%
Food & beverage$2,19362%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$30,096
Zimmer Biomet	19	$1,818
Arthrex	7	$760
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC	7	$527
Omnilife Science, Inc	6	$274
MVP Orthopedics Inc	2	$84
Encore Medical, LP	1	$79
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$18

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

$33,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$93,691

Medicare patients

156

Services billed

687

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	226	$2,020
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	19	$120
Meloxicam	14	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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