Angela Paez
Interventional Cardiology · Miami, FLNPI 1225636251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,969 of the $6,748 with a category attached, or 73.6%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.4%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,771 and has fallen 73.3% since, to $1,007 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $7,973.
Across 109 payments — averaging $61.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Heartflow, Inc.$458
- Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$320
- Novartis$270
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,64924%
- Food & beverage$4,96974%
- Education$1302%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 12 | $1,580 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,512 |
| AstraZeneca | 25 | $1,208 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 4 | $458 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $320 |
| Novartis | 13 | $270 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 7 | $267 |
| Merck | 7 | $201 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $120 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $114 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $80 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $63 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $61 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $56 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,110
- WATCHMAN Access System$942
- FARXIGA$494
- FFRct$439
- FUROSCIX$268
- LOKELMA$252
- WATCHMAN FLX$169
- Varithena Administration Pack$138
- BRILINTA$125
- BioMonitor$124
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$114
- Inpefa$109
How this compares
$6,748 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 623 interventional cardiology providers in Florida.
Other interventional cardiology in Miami
- Eduardo de MarchenaMiami$498K
- Juan ZambranoMiami$173K
- Michael DyalMiami$157K
- Nish PatelMiami$149K
- Pedro Martinez-ClarkMiami$136K
- Mauricio CohenMiami$129K
- Marquand PattonMiami$112K
- Ramon QuesadaMiami$94K
- Alvaro GomezMiami$71K
- Vinod ChainaniMiami$69K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.