Samip Vasaiwala, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Tampa, FLNPI 1326201773
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 237 payments — averaging $851.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$96K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$55K
- Boston Scientific$31K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$10K
- Abiomed$10K
- Medtronic$323
- plus $615 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $52.56 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.
- Abiomed$53
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,00026%
- Speaking & faculty fees$69,33755%
- Travel & lodging$15,91013%
- Food & beverage$7,3566%
- Gifts$300%
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 | 98 | $95,904 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 35 | $54,689 |
| Boston Scientific | 41 | $30,991 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 11 | $9,721 |
| Abiomed | 27 | $9,562 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $323 |
| Amgen | 14 | $252 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 2 | $186 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $28 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $7 |
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.
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$26,854
- COROFLOW$23,542
- OPTIS$15,284
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$9,610
- PRESSUREWIRE$9,055
- Impella$8,689
- XIENCE SIERRA$7,423
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$5,755
- Diamondback Coronary$5,507
- Dragonfly OCT$4,750
- Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System$3,555
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$797
- AVVIGO Guidance System$612
- Diamondback Peripheral$166
- ASAHI PTCA Guide Wire$158
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$148
- Optis Coronary Imaging System$147
- GENERAL - STENTS$131
- MAMBA$122
- FFRct$116
How this compares
$201,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $343 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Tampa
- Hiram BezerraTampa$1.6M
- Arthur LabovitzTampa$689K
- 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
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.