Samer Garas, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1669475778
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $157,805 of the $258,215 with a category attached, or 61.1%. 35 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 30.8% of the total. Among cardiovascular disease 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.
Across 792 payments — averaging $326.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$80K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$80K
- Amgen$66K
- Edwards Lifesciences$17K
- Abbott$5K
- Recor Medical Inc$3K
- plus $7K from 29 others
Across 97 payments — averaging $3092.07 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$113K
- Medtronic$95K
- Abbott$61K
- EKOS Corporation$12K
- AstraZeneca$10K
- Novartis$4K
- plus $4K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$41,87516%
- Speaking & faculty fees$157,80561%
- Travel & lodging$22,1029%
- Food & beverage$36,43314%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 221 | $79,608 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 174 | $79,536 |
| Amgen | 83 | $66,373 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 48 | $17,173 |
| Abbott | 82 | $5,338 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 13 | $3,043 |
| Boston Scientific | 63 | $2,157 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $1,776 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $590 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 5 | $274 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $274 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Stryker | 4 | $221 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $176 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 2 | $126 |
| Novartis | 6 | $124 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $113 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $88 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $85 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $68 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $68 |
| Gilead | 4 | $62 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $48 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Impella$72,843
- Repatha$61,870
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$60,408
- Vascular Lithotripsy$16,965
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$7,685
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$5,283
- Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation System$2,537
- MitraClip$1,120
- Mitra Clip system$1,055
- MitraClip System$515
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$378
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$363
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$363
- CoreValve Evolut$316
- WATCHMAN Access System$262
- RESOLUTE ONYX$250
- PARADISE RENAL DENERVATION SYSTEM$242
- ONYX FRONTIER$229
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$172
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent System$158
How this compares
$258,215 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 345 | $289,760 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 147 | $184,342 |
| EliquisApixaban | 139 | $134,580 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 63 | $68,595 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 59 | $52,747 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 61 | $37,452 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 20 | $15,038 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 438 | $4,724 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 282 | $4,253 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 97 | $4,202 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 42 | $2,831 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 40 | $2,756 |
| Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 73 | $2,745 |
| Valsartan | 88 | $2,689 |
| Carvedilol | 251 | $2,341 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $124 | $184,342147 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $113 | $134,580139 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $274 | $68,59563 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $176 | $52,74759 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Other cardiovascular disease in Jacksonville
- Alan MillerJacksonville$547K
- Jose Nativi-NicolauJacksonville$125K
- Kevin MakatiLutz$1.6M
- Hiram BezerraTampa$698K
- William OneillNaples$637K
- Theodore FeldmanMiami$637K
- John Gerald CantoLakeland$588K
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$517K
- Elliott EliasMiami$497K
- Vijay HaryaniVero Beach$413K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.