Alexandra Vargas
Family · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1235571076
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 209 payments — averaging $19.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$1K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$763
- Johnson & Johnson$596
- Merck$338
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$196
- Insmed, Inc.$182
- plus $555 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,038100%
- Education$110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 76 | $1,419 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 37 | $763 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 39 | $596 |
| Merck | 15 | $338 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 11 | $196 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 7 | $182 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $176 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 5 | $131 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $109 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $52 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $17 |
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
$4,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 14,618 family providers in Florida.
Other family in West Palm Beach
- Katharine TamburroWest Palm Beach$67K
- John HuffakerVenice$8M
- Stephanie MompointMiami$4.5M
- Miguel TrujilloMiami Gardens$4.4M
- Itsel Cardenas RamonMiami$1M
- Lewis HarringtonTampa$954K
- Adam StrosbergFort Lauderdale$859K
- Danielle PharesFt Lauderdale$713K
- David RodriguezHialeah$658K
- Donna OrtizOrlando$417K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.