James Brooks
Vascular Surgery · Tampa, FLNPI 1447542840
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 256 payments — averaging $44.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- plus $878 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00018%
- Food & beverage$9,42482%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $2,062 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 69 | $2,040 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 36 | $1,946 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 74 | $1,781 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $1,382 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 35 | $1,336 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $343 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 16 | $232 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Abbott | 2 | $30 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Endurant$480
- ENDURANT IIS$436
- ELUVIA$327
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$315
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$259
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$246
- Zenith Spiral-Z$236
- Zilver PTX$203
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$200
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$166
- Penumbra System$143
- iCAST$125
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$122
- Zenith$111
- Cook Medical AAA$111
- InterGard$106
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$103
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$103
How this compares
$11,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 385 vascular surgery providers in Florida.
Other vascular surgery in Tampa
- Murray ShamesTampa$354K
- Martin BackTampa$303K
- K Dean ArnaoutakisTampa$271K
- Charles BaileyTampa$180K
- Charles BriggsTampa$102K
- Halim YammineTampa$92K
- Diego AyoTampa$76K
- Karl IlligTampa$76K
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Erin MooreJacksonville$488K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.