Rafael Bustamante, MD
Vascular Surgery · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1164743837
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 176 payments — averaging $72.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$564
- Medtronic$473
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,31726%
- Food & beverage$9,37574%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 13 | $3,615 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 24 | $2,669 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 35 | $2,420 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 65 | $1,926 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $564 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $473 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $310 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $261 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $103 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Humacyte Global, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Indigo$2,001
- Indigo System$1,646
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$1,332
- AngioVac$1,086
- Kerecis SurgiClose$750
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$440
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$390
- Zilver PTX$362
- Penumbra Ruby Coil$254
- Kerecis GraftGuide$188
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$185
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$177
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$162
- Valiant Captivia$151
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$144
- Grafts$131
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$128
- Cook Medical Advanced Tech$125
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$118
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$103
How this compares
$12,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 385 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 23 | $15,724 |
| EliquisApixaban | 12 | $8,235 |
| Cilostazol | 31 | $451 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Fort Lauderdale
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Erin MooreJacksonville$488K
- Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
- Woongchae LeeBoca Raton$414K
- Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$396K
- Murray ShamesTampa$354K
- Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$344K
- Martin BackTampa$303K
- Rajesh MalikNaples$296K
- Eduardo MartinezMiami$288K
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.