Chukwudumebi Okafor
Hospitalist · Hollywood, FLNPI 1932631579
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,554 of the $2,278 with a category attached, or 68.2%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 53.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,236, 3.6 times the $345 reported in 2022. Among hospitalist clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 22 payments — averaging $103.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$482
- Merck$139
- AbbVie$125
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$100
- Shionogi Inc$97
- plus $126 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$72432%
- Food & beverage$1,55468%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,210 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $482 |
| Merck | 2 | $139 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $100 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Novartis | 4 | $65 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $28 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,051
- Micra$312
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$170
- WATCHMAN FLX$153
- DALVANCE$125
- PREVYMIS$123
How this compares
$2,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,570 hospitalist 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 29 | $124 |
| Famotidine | 14 | $100 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 14 | $93 |
| Carvedilol | 18 | $91 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $50 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Hollywood
- Jeanette AlvarezHollywood$3K
- Murray EpsteinMiami$370K
- Oliver AbelaFort Myers$77K
- Joshua LenchusFort Lauderdale$73K
- Tuncay TaskesenThe Villages$22K
- Diego MunozApopka$17K
- Francisco Perez LoretoMiami$17K
- Tereese AllenTampa$11K
- Timothy LongBay Pines$10K
- Iahn GonsenhauserFort Myers$8K
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.