Christina Koo
Rheumatology · Largo, FLNPI 1962081554
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 196 payments — averaging $39.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$3K
- Amgen$910
- AbbVie$847
- Johnson & Johnson$694
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$390
- UCB, Inc.$312
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,46996%
- Education$2764%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 24 | $2,844 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 41 | $910 |
| AbbVie | 21 | $847 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $694 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 3 | $390 |
| UCB, Inc. | 21 | $312 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $270 |
| GSK | 6 | $266 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $146 |
| Novartis | 7 | $133 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $109 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 5 | $101 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $99 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $72 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $68 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $44 |
| Bayer | 2 | $42 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $31 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $23 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 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
$7,744 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 21 | $1,191 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Largo
- Martha Hernandez IllasFort Lauderdale$25M
- Carlos SesinMiami Beach$19M
- Guillermo ValenzuelaPlantation$14.2M
- Marimer Rensoli VelazquezMiami$12.2M
- Robert LevinClearwater$11M
- Jigar ShahMargate$5.6M
- Michael BubbGainesville$3.3M
- Vipul JoshiBrandon$3.1M
- Alvin WellsDestin$2.9M
- Benidecto FernandezHialeah$2.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.