Elie Zayyat, MD
Vascular Surgery · Gainesville, FLNPI 1760429930
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.9%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. at 36.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,083 and has fallen 60.1% since, to $831 in 2025.
Across 92 payments — averaging $85.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$3K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$751
- Cvrx, Inc.$565
- Boston Scientific$376
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$350
- plus $2K from 20 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $10,001 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Novapproach Spine, LLC$50K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3504%
- Travel & lodging$3,32042%
- Food & beverage$4,14053%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 20 | $2,867 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 9 | $1,079 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $751 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 7 | $565 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $376 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $350 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $285 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $234 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $232 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $160 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $142 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $138 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $100 |
| Stryker | 1 | $52 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| EKOS Corporation | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $30 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $23 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Navicross$648
- GlideWire$648
- AZUR$613
- INTEGRA$522
- Barostim Neo System$454
- WAVELINQ$421
- HeRO Graft$350
- Surfacer Inside-Out Catheter$350
- Varithena Administration Pack$311
- Novosorb BTM$273
- Glidesheath$229
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$211
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$174
- PRIMATRIX$174
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$158
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$157
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$142
- Rotarex$141
- VenaSeal$138
- XARELTO$112
How this compares
$7,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 385 vascular surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Gainesville
- Robert FeezorGainesville$90K
- Michol CooperGainesville$50K
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
- Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$302K
- Erin MooreJacksonville$300K
- Rajesh MalikNaples$237K
- Charles BaileyTampa$162K
- Joseph WasselleMelbourne$161K
- Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$156K
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.