Dolores Paez
Cardiovascular Disease · Tampa, FLNPI 1215645809
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 88 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $800 and has fallen 55.4% since, to $357 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,774.
Across 88 payments — averaging $20.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cvrx, Inc.$303
- Merck$250
- Boehringer Ingelheim$218
- Pfizer$177
- Novartis$162
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$139
- plus $588 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,837100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cvrx, Inc. | 4 | $303 |
| Merck | 15 | $250 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $218 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $177 |
| Novartis | 9 | $162 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $139 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Amgen | 5 | $87 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $79 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $69 |
| Bayer | 3 | $45 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $41 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $18 |
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
$1,837 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Other cardiovascular disease in Tampa
- Hiram BezerraTampa$698K
- James SmithTampa$324K
- David WilsonTampa$258K
- Robby WuTampa$190K
- Jason FelibertiTampa$138K
- Samip VasaiwalaTampa$126K
- Kevin MakatiLutz$1.6M
- William OneillNaples$637K
- Theodore FeldmanMiami$637K
- John Gerald CantoLakeland$588K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.