Saleem Toro
Cardiovascular Disease · Orlando, FLNPI 1548656697
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 242 payments — averaging $51.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$6K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Amgen$609
- Abiomed$464
- Philips North America LLC$291
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,15925%
- Food & beverage$9,01872%
- Education$3653%
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 | 82 | $6,444 |
| Medtronic | 46 | $1,460 |
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $1,262 |
| Amgen | 28 | $609 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $464 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $291 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $228 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $195 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $172 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $152 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Novartis | 6 | $144 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $112 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $109 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| GE HealthCare | 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.
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,881
- GALLANT$1,652
- Impella$269
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$265
- ENSITE PRECISION$255
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$242
- AVVIGO Guidance System$232
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$178
- Barostim Neo System$150
- THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$140
- WATCHMAN FLX$136
- OPTICROSS$130
- Fortify Assura$126
- CARDIOMEMS$123
- Repatha$120
- Orsiro Mission$117
- SYNERGY$117
- FFRct$113
- (BQ9) Coronary IVUS$113
- Arikayce$108
How this compares
$12,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Other cardiovascular disease in Orlando
- Rohit BhathejaOrlando$896K
- Michael KorenGainesville$31M
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$11.1M
- Alexis GutierrezHialeah$8M
- Eric SpivackAventura$7.1M
- William OneillNaples$4.6M
- Rafik AbadierInverness$4.4M
- Alvaro MurciaPembroke Pines$4M
- David HotchkissPort Charlotte$4M
- Ferris GeorgeSt Augustine$3.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.