Scott Gargasz, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Wesley Chapel, FLNPI 1386626380
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 19 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery of the hand clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $3,069.
Across 19 payments — averaging $31.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$108
- Stryker$106
- Axogen$99
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$70
- Smith+Nephew$70
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$33
- plus $116 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$602100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $108 |
| Stryker | 2 | $106 |
| Axogen | 2 | $99 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $70 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $70 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Orthocell LTD | 1 | $15 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 60 surgery of the hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 130 | $457 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 28 | $137 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $40 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Wesley Chapel
- Monica MillerWesley Chapel$8K
- Thomas WrightGainesville$4.1M
- David ShenassaPlantation$109K
- Antonio GayosoSt Petersburg$65K
- Robert GrahamJacksonville Beach$62K
- David FriedmanWeston$42K
- Karan DesaiWinter Garden$39K
- Morad AskariCoral Gables$36K
- Jose BorreroAltamonte Springs$35K
- Francisco Schwartz-FernandesOcala$26K
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.