Timothy Hipp, MD
Surgery · Gainesville, FLNPI 1437156213
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (31.6%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Davol Inc. at 55.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,453 and has fallen 86.1% since, to $480 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $250.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Novo Nordisk$124
- Conmed Corporation$87
- LSI Solutions Inc$34
- Solventum Corporation$22
- plus $43 from 3 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $106,250 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Novapproach Spine, LLC$319K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00018%
- Travel & lodging$3,47632%
- Food & beverage$2,34221%
- Education$3,17829%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 19 | $6,137 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 17 | $4,566 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $124 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $87 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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$4,250
- Phasix Mesh$2,509
How this compares
$11,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 70 | $500 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Gainesville
- Isaac MotamarryGainesville$115K
- Martin RosenthalGainesville$82K
- 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
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.