Joy Viars
Adult Health · Tampa, FLNPI 1932353430
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 103 payments — averaging $37.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- AstraZeneca$616
- Amgen$347
- Abiomed$304
- Novartis$266
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$206
- plus $734 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2156%
- Food & beverage$3,69694%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 28 | $1,438 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $616 |
| Amgen | 12 | $347 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $304 |
| Novartis | 14 | $266 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $79 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $64 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $59 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $38 |
| Merck | 1 | $33 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $30 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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.
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$303
- Impella$227
- Assure WCD$181
- MitraClip System$177
- HeartMate Touch$169
- Barostim Neo System$138
- NEXLIZET$125
- NEXLETOL$125
- FARXIGA$125
- Repatha$122
- ANDEXXA$122
How this compares
$3,911 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,237 adult health providers in Florida.
Other adult health in Tampa
- Jamie JohnsonTampa$58K
- Jennifer GodshallTampa$29K
- Michael RoggelinTampa$21K
- Mercedes FernandezTampa$19K
- Cashawna SchlossnagleTampa$18K
- Jennifer BishopTampa$17K
- Meredith ButlerTampa$16K
- Kimberly RandolphTampa$14K
- Esmeralda YoungTampa$14K
- Peggy WallaceTampa$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.