Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) in Florida
408 providers, $18,393,175 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $6,925.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in Florida
Across 299 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $39,520,611 in total — an average of $132,176 each, of which $129,461 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Anthony NunezOrlando$4,786,992
- 2Barry WintonLargo$686,952
- 3Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$665,916
- 4John PirrisJacksonville$639,909
- 5Jacques FontaineTampa$629,567
- 6Andrew ShermanTampa$517,239
- 7Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$514,896
- 8Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429,262
- 9Luis HerreraOrlando$409,101
- 10Joseph LamelasMiami$379,325
- 11Lucian LozonschiTampa$353,644
- 12Brian BetheaDelray Beach$329,557
- 13Kevin AccolaOrlando$312,858
- 14Mark DylewskiMiami$278,662
- 15Lawrence LeeOrlando$251,950
- 16Magdy El-Sayed AhmedJacksonville$208,928
- 17Tom NguyenMiami$190,996
- 18Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$186,634
- 19Marcelo DasilvaOrlando$149,908
- 20Joshua RovinClearwater$142,706
- 21Thomas CaranasosNaples$140,738
- 22Wael TamimFort Lauderdale$135,952
- 23Brian HummelFort Myers$128,926
- 24Michael DefrainPensacola$127,858
- 25Thomas BeaverGainesville$127,642
- 26Alfredo RegoDoral$124,354
- 27Nishant PatelPalm Beach Gardens$122,511
- 28Chadwick StoufferJacksonville$113,646
- 29Christopher ScottJacksonville$110,509
- 30Brian BrucknerHollywood$105,752
- 31Marcos NoresAtlantis$104,457
- 32Erik BeyerLauderdale Lakes$103,007
- 33Charles KlodellGainesville$102,284
- 34Kenneth LeeJupiter$95,837
- 35Paul ChomiakSarasota$94,517
- 36Alessandro GolinoBradenton$94,361
- 37Ahmad ZeeshanOrlando$84,687
- 38Christiano CaldeiraLargo$79,404
- 39Brian SolomonNaples$76,220
- 40Kenan YountJacksonville$74,464
- 41James WudelVero Beach$73,256
- 42Hamid MumtazWesley Chapel$71,794
- 43Joseph McGinnMiami$69,793
- 44Michael Sasevich LorenzanaMiami$67,060
- 45Naaman AbdullahAventura$66,593
- 46Jeffrey NewmanPlantation$64,580
- 47Mehrdad GhoreishiMiami$64,274
- 48Farid GharagozlooOrlando$60,592
- 49Michael KayattaClearwater$60,420
- 50George ArnaoutakisGainesville$60,214
- 51Eric WeissMiami Beach$58,368
- 52Nathan BatesJacksonville$58,114
- 53David RobaczewskiPensacola$57,606
- 54Tamim AntakiMelbourne$57,393
- 55Irving DavidAventura$55,721
- 56Elbert KuoJacksonville$55,385
- 57Gary AllenTavares$53,012
- 58Michael HannaOrlando$51,501
- 59Narendra SastryTampa$49,746
- 60Eric TolozaTampa$47,706