Eric Spivack
Cardiovascular Disease · Aventura, FLNPI 1336296789
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 5 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 91.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $286 and has fallen 59.9% since, to $115 in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,774.
Across 5 payments — averaging $87.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$400
- AbbVie$20
- Novartis$19
Across 10 payments — averaging $714,012 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.
- Amgen$6.1M
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$953K
- Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$61K
- AstraZeneca$18K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$439100%
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.
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.
- Micra$163
- CareLink Express$122
- MyCareLink$115
How this compares
$439 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Other cardiovascular disease in Aventura
- Kevin MakatiLutz$1.6M
- Hiram BezerraTampa$698K
- William OneillNaples$637K
- Theodore FeldmanMiami$637K
- John Gerald CantoLakeland$588K
- Alan MillerJacksonville$547K
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$517K
- Elliott EliasMiami$497K
- Vijay HaryaniVero Beach$413K
- Neel PatelMaitland$392K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.