Venkata Iyunni, MD
Gastroenterology · Pinellas Park, FLNPI 1588697080
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 7 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $464 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $13 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for gastroenterology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $3,025.
Across 7 payments — averaging $85.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$461
- Amgen$106
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$16
- Ardelyx, Inc.$13
Across 25 payments — averaging $1892.41 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.
- Shire North American Group Inc$27K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$21K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$595100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $461 |
| Amgen | 1 | $106 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 18 | $30,808 |
| Famotidine | 101 | $1,827 |
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 82 | $1,337 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 39 | $776 |
| Omeprazole | 36 | $710 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 38 | $572 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 22 | $397 |
| Lactulose | 13 | $324 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 23 | $246 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $131 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 12 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Pinellas Park
- Samuel GidayOrlando$2M
- Lukasz KwapiszMiami$1.2M
- Jennifer Seminerio-DiehlOrlando$1.1M
- Udayakumar NavaneethanSaint Petersburg$1.1M
- Ronen AraiCoral Springs$1.1M
- Charles SninskyGainesville$983K
- Peter DraganovGainesville$832K
- Arin NewmanMiami Beach$716K
- Joanna LopezMiami$670K
- Jose NietoSebring$573K
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.