Samuel Szomstein, MD
Surgery · Weston, FLNPI 1861455578
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $164,185 of the $240,409 with a category attached, or 68.3%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lilly USA, LLC at 56.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $113,469, 7.9 times the $14,323 reported in 2019. Among 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 233 payments — averaging $1031.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$137K
- Intuitive Surgical$44K
- Medtronic$26K
- Covidien LP$22K
- Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices & Diagnostics Group - Latin America, L.L.C.$9K
- Trevena, Inc.$3K
- plus $585 from 4 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $10,400 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$10K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,0769%
- Speaking & faculty fees$164,18568%
- Travel & lodging$10,6414%
- Food & beverage$4,9102%
- Education$39,59716%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 92 | $136,630 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 64 | $44,053 |
| Medtronic | 45 | $25,843 |
| Covidien LP | 24 | $21,520 |
| Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices & Diagnostics Group - Latin America, L.L.C. | 3 | $9,278 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $2,500 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $285 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $94 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $23 |
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.
- ZEPBOUND$125,458
- Da Vinci Surgical System$36,270
- ENSEAL Product Family$8,870
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$8,870
- HARMONIC Product Family$8,870
- DAVINCI XI$7,000
- Sonicision$4,200
- MAXTACK$4,160
- Dextile$3,808
- Signia$3,316
- Olinvyk$2,500
- LigaSure$760
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$693
- iDrive$278
- Phasix Mesh$183
- Endo Stitch$150
- TruClear$117
How this compares
$240,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 Weston
- 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.