Has David Nykanen received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $73,948 in general payments to David Nykanen across 128 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Nykanen did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Nykanen come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Nykanen

Pediatric Cardiology · Orlando, FLNPI 1508824624

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,475 of the $73,948 with a category attached, or 81.8%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 42.5% of the total. Among pediatric cardiology 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.

$73,948in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $577.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$31K
Renata Medical, Inc.$20K
Abbott$13K
Medtronic$8K
Baylis Medical Technologies Inc.$1K
Penumbra, Inc.$293
plus $470 from 3 others

$39,475in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $1066.89 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Abbott$39K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$500

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$60,47582%
Travel & lodging$8,68012%
Food & beverage$4,7946%

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
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	22	$31,423
Renata Medical, Inc.	21	$19,634
Abbott	12	$13,061
Medtronic(2 entities)	64	$7,867
Baylis Medical Technologies Inc.	2	$1,200
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$293
B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.	2	$234
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$129
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$108

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

$73,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 185 pediatric cardiology providers in Florida.

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Other pediatric cardiology in Orlando

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Jorge GarciaOrlando$16K
Patricia ThomasOrlando$11K
Rodrigo NehgmeOrlando$10K
Christopher HerronOrlando$6K
David BristonOrlando$3K
Matthew ZussmanOrlando$2K
Sukumar Suguna NarasimhuluOrlando$2K
Bhavya TrivediOrlando$1K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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