Rahila Essani, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Celebration, FLNPI 1992718050
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (48.6%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $123,315 and has fallen 65.2% since, to $42,943 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 511 payments — averaging $742.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$370K
- Davol Inc.$8K
- Medtronic$775
- Johnson & Johnson$245
- Conmed Corporation$212
- Guard Medical Inc.$144
- plus $192 from 4 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $750.00 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.
- Medtronic$750
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4880%
- Speaking & faculty fees$112,65030%
- Travel & lodging$60,05616%
- Food & beverage$21,8366%
- Education$184,30749%
- Gifts$910%
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 | 487 | $370,170 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $7,690 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $775 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $245 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $212 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $92 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Covidien LP | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$328,073
- DA VINCI SP$37,850
- Signia$153
- NPseal$144
- NPSEAL LARGE$144
- NPSEAL MEDIUM$144
How this compares
$379,427 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 157 colon & rectal 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 colon & rectal surgery in Celebration
- Mark SolimanAltamonte Springs$872K
- Eduardo Parra DavilaWest Palm Beach$577K
- Matthew AlbertAltamonte Springs$514K
- Avraham BelizonBoca Raton$482K
- Henry LujanMiami$378K
- Steven WexnerWeston$333K
- Allen ChudzinskiTampa$252K
- Ron LandmannJacksonville$224K
- Luis HernandezMiami$220K
- George NassifAltamonte Springs$201K
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.