Tim Ruark, MD
Surgery · Tallahassee, FLNPI 1699877852
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 56 payments — averaging $24.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$156
- Kerecis Limited$141
- Endomagnetics Ltd$105
- Biom'up France SAS$96
- Smith+Nephew$89
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$78
- plus $732 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,398100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $156 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $141 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 2 | $105 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 2 | $96 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $89 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $52 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $33 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $26 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 110 | $566 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $172 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tallahassee
- Leo DerosierTallahassee$152K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Steven FagienBoca Raton$1.6M
- John MullinaxTampa$1.5M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Panagiotis SarantosGainesville$1.3M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Christopher DucoinTampa$1.1M
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
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.