Christopher Bitetzakis, DO
Cardiovascular Disease · Tampa, FLNPI 1275996241
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $102.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$505
- Ancora Heart, Inc.$416
- Abiomed$240
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,50023%
- Travel & lodging$3,27730%
- Food & beverage$4,77644%
- Education$1992%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 22 | $3,893 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $3,252 |
| Medtronic | 23 | $1,318 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $505 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 4 | $416 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $240 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $198 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $182 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 1 | $154 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
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.
- PASCAL$1,429
- MitraClip$807
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$684
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$676
- Diamondback Coronary$251
- AccuCinch$218
- Micra$155
- VersaCross Access Solution$154
- GENERAL ULTRASOUND$123
- Watchman$123
- WATCHMAN Access System$122
- (9148) ICE 3D$115
How this compares
$10,751 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease 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.
Other cardiovascular disease in Tampa
- Hiram BezerraTampa$1.6M
- Arthur LabovitzTampa$689K
- Michael KorenGainesville$31M
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$11.1M
- Alexis GutierrezHialeah$8M
- Eric SpivackAventura$7.1M
- William OneillNaples$4.6M
- Rafik AbadierInverness$4.4M
- Alvaro MurciaPembroke Pines$4M
- David HotchkissPort Charlotte$4M
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.