George Yatzkan, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Miami, FLNPI 1457308744
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $3,049 of the $4,944 with a category attached, or 61.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,136 and has fallen 91.8% since, to $338 in 2025.
Across 27 payments — averaging $183.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Boston Scientific$354
- Ambu Inc.$255
- Abbott$180
- Johnson & Johnson$124
- Sanofi$124
- plus $129 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76315%
- Food & beverage$1,13223%
- Education$3,04962%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $3,780 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $354 |
| Ambu Inc. | 3 | $255 |
| Abbott | 1 | $180 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $124 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $124 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $49 |
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.
- ION$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$744
- DUPIXENT$247
- ENSITE PRECISION$180
- WATCHMAN FLX$165
- XARELTO$124
How this compares
$4,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 618 critical care medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 11 | $281 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other critical care medicine in Miami
- Michael CamposMiami$70K
- Alexandre AbreuMiami$34K
- Daniel KettMiami$14K
- Louis GuzziOrlando$635K
- Fortune AlabiKissimmee$587K
- Debabrata BandyopadhyayTampa$398K
- Fred UmehKissimmee$371K
- Amit TandonWesley Chapel$338K
- Omid ZadOrlando$325K
- Eddy GutierrezJacksonville$315K
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.