Ricardo Gonzalez, MD
Surgical Oncology · Tampa, FLNPI 1275632929
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,700 of the $6,685 with a category attached, or 85.3%. Baxter Healthcare accounts for 88.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,801 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $92 in 2024.
Across 22 payments — averaging $303.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$6K
- Boston Scientific$492
- Medtronic$170
- AbbVie$89
- Eisai Inc.$21
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,70085%
- Travel & lodging$621%
- Food & beverage$92314%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $5,912 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $492 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $170 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $89 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- FLOSEAL$5,700
- No Related Product$5,700
- TISSEEL$5,700
- Signia$170
- GENERAL FEMALE SUI$120
- ADVANTAGE$116
How this compares
$6,685 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 133 surgical oncology 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 surgical oncology in Tampa
- Jonathan ZagerTampa$191K
- Pamela HodulTampa$94K
- Charles CoxTampa$24K
- Jason FlemingTampa$14K
- Nicholas ChampionTampa$4K
- Neha GoelMiami$200K
- Horacio AsbunMiami$161K
- Adrian Legaspi SauterHialeah$116K
- Kenneth MeredithSarasota$113K
- Mehran HabibiMiami$73K
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.