Tamara Stiep, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.4%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 82.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,370 and has fallen 84.9% since, to $208 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $1,698.
Across 34 payments — averaging $67.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$180
- AbbVie$95
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$90
- Livanova USA, Inc.$21
- Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$17
Across 1 payment — averaging $580.00 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.
- Medtronic$580
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,07047%
- Food & beverage$1,15650%
- Education$673%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 23 | $1,892 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $180 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $95 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $90 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Percept$853
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$459
How this compares
$2,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,434 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RytaryCarbidopa/Levodopa | 14 | $37,911 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 207 | $10,706 |
| Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa | 41 | $2,747 |
| Propranolol Hcl | 25 | $1,256 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $514 |
| Primidone | 17 | $188 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 11 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Miami
- Diego Torres-RussottoMiami$652K
- Bruno GalloMiami$313K
- Brad HerskowitzMiami$273K
- Flavia NelsonMiami$264K
- Corneliu LucaMiami$257K
- Kottil RammohanMiami$176K
- Stuart IsaacsonBoca Raton$3.9M
- Selim BenbadisTampa$2.1M
- Derrick RobertsonTampa$1.8M
- Robert HauserTampa$1.6M
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.