Howard Schwartz
Gastroenterology · Tavernier, FLNPI 1942286588
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (49.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Merck accounts for 64.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,803 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $23 in 2023.
Across 19 payments — averaging $202.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$2K
- Pfizer$1K
- Gilead$140
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$23
Across 1,889 payments — averaging $20,604 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.
- Pfizer$18.1M
- Modernatx, Inc.$5.7M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$5M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$3.8M
- Merck$2.4M
- Imbrium Therapeutics L.p.$1.2M
- plus $2.7M from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00026%
- Travel & lodging$1,91150%
- Food & beverage$91624%
- Gifts$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 11 | $2,485 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $1,198 |
| Gilead | 2 | $140 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- MK-7264$826
- PREVNAR - 13$799
- MK-8591$334
- Epclusa$125
How this compares
$3,846 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.
Other gastroenterology in Tavernier
- Samuel GidayOrlando$2M
- Lukasz KwapiszMiami$1.2M
- Jennifer Seminerio-DiehlOrlando$1.1M
- Udayakumar NavaneethanSaint Petersburg$1.1M
- Ronen AraiCoral Springs$1.1M
- Charles SninskyGainesville$983K
- Peter DraganovGainesville$832K
- Arin NewmanMiami Beach$716K
- Joanna LopezMiami$670K
- Jose NietoSebring$573K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.