Jose Suarez
Family Medicine · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1407982457
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $13,374 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$305K
- Gilead$100K
- Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.$22K
- First Wave Biopharma, Inc.$15K
- Abbott$153
- Medtronic$104
- plus $193 from 4 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $16,157 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.
- First Wave Biopharma, Inc.$71K
- Eli Lilly$59K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$43396%
- Education$174%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 5 | $304,883 |
| Gilead | 9 | $99,666 |
| Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | 4 | $21,508 |
| First Wave Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $14,847 |
| Abbott | 4 | $153 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $104 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $98 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $56 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Claria MRI$104
How this compares
$441,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
Other family medicine in Miami Beach
- Hugh ColemanDaytona Beach$115.5M
- Alexander WhiteDaytona Beach$69.7M
- Ronald SurowitzJupiter$38.3M
- Bruce RankinDeland$36.7M
- Keila HooverMiami$33.7M
- John NardandreaOcala$30.8M
- Jorge CasoMiami$22.6M
- Sharrell CooperPalm Coast$16.9M
- Christopher GallowayMelbourne$15.6M
- Dario AltamiranoHialeah$15.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.