Tuncay Taskesen, MD
Hospitalist · The Villages, FLNPI 1245619741
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.3% of the total. Among hospitalist 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 243 payments — averaging $92.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Abbott$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$586
- plus $3K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$12,49856%
- Food & beverage$8,75739%
- Education$1,2426%
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(2 entities) | 63 | $6,358 |
| Abbott | 35 | $3,830 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 37 | $3,644 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 11 | $3,186 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 14 | $1,789 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $586 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $465 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $316 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 30 | $304 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $245 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $235 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $230 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $186 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $184 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $182 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $75 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $56 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $13 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$4,025
- Indigo System$1,966
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,547
- OMNILINK ELITE$1,195
- RUBY Coil$1,100
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$930
- GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$669
- MitraClip$654
- SUPERA$406
- OPTIMIZER$353
- Assurity Pacemaker$282
- JARDIANCE$245
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$195
- Impella$147
- WATCHMAN FLX$141
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$134
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$134
- ViewMate Intracardiac Echo$129
- BRILINTA$125
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$122
How this compares
$22,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,570 hospitalist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 47 | $536 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in The Villages
- Murray EpsteinMiami$370K
- Oliver AbelaFort Myers$77K
- Joshua LenchusFort Lauderdale$73K
- Diego MunozApopka$17K
- Francisco Perez LoretoMiami$17K
- Tereese AllenTampa$11K
- Timothy LongBay Pines$10K
- Iahn GonsenhauserFort Myers$8K
- Michael ShehataRiverview$7K
- Robert KopecSafety Harbor$7K
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.