Sharfi Sarker, MD
Surgery · North Venice, FLNPI 1669449583
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,500 of the $11,609 with a category attached, or 73.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,410 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $173 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $305.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Sirius Medical Systems$264
- Baxter Healthcare$208
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$195
- Amgen$125
- Genentech USA, Inc.$100
- plus $307 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,83316%
- Food & beverage$1,27611%
- Education$8,50073%
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 | 12 | $10,410 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 1 | $264 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $208 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $195 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $97 |
| Stryker | 1 | $47 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $30 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $24 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,806
- PINTUITION$264
- Repatha$125
- Kadcyla$100
How this compares
$11,609 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 62 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in North Venice
- 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.