Steven Bowers, MD
Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1396760773
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,050 of the $5,507 with a category attached, or 73.5%. BK Medical Holding Company Inc. accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,050 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $253 in 2025.
Across 23 payments — averaging $239.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- BK Medical Holding Company Inc.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$777
- Covidien LP$231
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$179
- TELA Bio, Inc.$139
- AstraZeneca$68
- plus $61 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,05074%
- Food & beverage$1,38825%
- Education$681%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BK Medical Holding Company Inc. | 1 | $4,050 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $777 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $231 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $179 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $68 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $45 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
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.
How this compares
$5,507 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rabeprazole Sodium | 12 | $412 |
| Omeprazole | 25 | $392 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jacksonville
- Kenneth JonesJacksonville$267K
- Steven HodgettJacksonville$148K
- Thea PriceJacksonville$115K
- Craig MorgenthalJacksonville$106K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
- Elizabeth DovecLakeland$870K
- Christopher DucoinTampa$808K
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.