Orlando Torres
Gastroenterology · Hialeah, FLNPI 1760562094
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $16,279 of the $18,213 with a category attached, or 89.4%. Olympus America Inc. accounts for 89.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2023 is the largest year on record at $16,279, more than ten times the $595 reported in 2019. Among gastroenterology clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 103 payments — averaging $176.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Olympus America Inc.$16K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$765
- Planmeca USA, Inc.$244
- Gilead$182
- AbbVie$178
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$169
- plus $382 from 8 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $8393.20 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.
- Eli Lilly$58K
- GSK$9K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,91110%
- Gifts$240%
- Other$16,27989%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $16,295 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 63 | $765 |
| Planmeca USA, Inc. | 1 | $244 |
| Gilead | 11 | $182 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $178 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $169 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 7 | $140 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $42 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $16 |
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.
- PLANMECA PROMAX$244
- Creon$125
How this compares
$18,213 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.
Other gastroenterology in Hialeah
- Joel KertznusHialeah$67K
- Samuel GidayOrlando$2M
- Lukasz KwapiszMiami$1.2M
- Jennifer Seminerio-DiehlOrlando$1.1M
- Udayakumar NavaneethanSaint Petersburg$1.1M
- Ronen AraiCoral Springs$1.1M
- Charles SninskyGainesville$983K
- Peter DraganovGainesville$832K
- Arin NewmanMiami Beach$716K
- Joanna LopezMiami$670K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.