Has Jose Vega received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,467 in general payments to Jose Vega across 11 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Jose Vega did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Jose Vega come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Jose Vega

Emergency Medicine · Coral Gables, FLNPI 1578524757

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,031 of the $1,467 with a category attached, or 70.3%. Stryker accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,031, 6.0 times the $172 reported in 2019. Among emergency medicine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,467in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $133.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Straumann USA LLC$159
AstraZeneca$140
Johnson & Johnson$107
Genentech USA, Inc.$16
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$14

$527,738in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $175,913 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.

AstraZeneca$528K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,03170%
Food & beverage$43630%

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
Stryker	3	$1,031
Straumann USA LLC	1	$159
AstraZeneca	3	$140
Johnson & Johnson	2	$107
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$16
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$14

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.

How this compares

$1,467 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,289 emergency medicine providers in Florida.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Benzonatate	125	$250
Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl	17	$167
Triamcinolone Acetonide	16	$136
Oseltamivir Phosphate	12	$124
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	16	$120
Mupirocin	24	$51
Azithromycin	31	$48
Diclofenac Sodium	34	$29
Tizanidine Hcl	27	$27
Methylprednisolone	13	$25
Naproxen	21	$19
Cephalexin	12	$15
Ondansetron Hcl	21	$13
Doxycycline Monohydrate	11	$7

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other emergency medicine in Coral Gables

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Laurent DreyfussSunrise$1.2M
Jason WilsonTampa$538K
Robert LutenJacksonville$190K
Adam LeisyHialeah$148K
Joseph TyndallGainesville$130K
Kunal AgarwalMiami$101K
Jason WilsonFort Myers$96K
Latha GantiGainesville$86K
Brandon AllenGainesville$80K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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