Michelle Vega
Acute Care · Miami, FLNPI 1043703747
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 73 payments — averaging $54.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$451
- AstraZeneca$323
- Abbott$274
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$220
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$220
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,948100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $1,212 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $451 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 7 | $323 |
| Abbott | 6 | $274 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $220 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $220 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $215 |
| Amgen | 6 | $205 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $166 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $149 |
| Novartis | 8 | $132 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $125 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $55 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$564
- WATCHMAN FLX$425
- OPTIMIZER$356
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$286
- FARXIGA$234
- Assure WCD$197
- SYMPLICITY G3$164
- MitraClip System$135
- CAMZYOS$125
- Wegovy$125
- Watchman$124
- Repatha$122
How this compares
$3,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,150 acute care providers in Florida.
Other acute care in Miami
- Yvette NaranjoMiami$12K
- Yuri CarmonaMiami$10K
- Monica RamirezMiami$9K
- Rosa Canete-YohamMiami$9K
- Julio AcostaMiami$9K
- Uday DasariMiami$7K
- Julissa WilliamsMiami$7K
- Michelle ViteriMiami$6K
- Marie RenoitMiami$6K
- Rebecca JuliaoMiami$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.