Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1366527277
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (45.3%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $147,702, 3.8 times the $38,551 reported in 2019. Among pulmonary disease 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 266 payments — averaging $965.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$199K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$21K
- Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH$14K
- Pulmonx Corporation$12K
- Cook Incorporated$4K
- Olympus Latin America, Inc.$4K
- plus $4K from 5 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $17,808 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.
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$290K
- Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc.$13K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,9504%
- Speaking & faculty fees$116,34245%
- Travel & lodging$59,67223%
- Food & beverage$7,2803%
- Education$63,15525%
- Gifts$3160%
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 | 212 | $198,565 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 27 | $20,866 |
| Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH | 3 | $14,133 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 8 | $11,816 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $3,713 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 6 | $3,520 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $3,000 |
| Broncus Medical | 1 | $914 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $140 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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$195,480
- EBUS$8,360
- EVIS EXERA$8,355
- Olympus EBUS Bronchoscopes$7,586
- CHARTIS CATHETER$7,200
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$7,200
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$7,200
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$7,200
- EVIS EXERA II ULTRASONIC BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$6,820
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$4,534
- Blue Rhino$3,713
- SPYGLASS$103
How this compares
$256,715 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 953 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 21 | $439 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pulmonary disease in Jacksonville
- Jennifer FultonJacksonville$665K
- Jose Soto SotoJacksonville$504K
- Jorge MalleaJacksonville$457K
- Abubakr BajwaJacksonville$414K
- Bryan HustaJacksonville$283K
- Peter NassarJacksonville$141K
- Charles BurgerJacksonville$124K
- Daniel WyzanJacksonville$100K
- David Abia TrujilloJacksonville$68K
- Franck RahaghiWeston$1.2M
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.