Venus Rivera
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1720269681
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 143 payments — averaging $41.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Axogen$691
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$317
- Merz North America, Inc.$243
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$214
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,870100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 15 | $1,942 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 36 | $1,023 |
| Axogen | 17 | $691 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 12 | $317 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 5 | $243 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $214 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $180 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $155 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $115 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 6 | $114 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $52 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $51 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Stryker | 2 | $49 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Mckesson Medical-surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$229
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$125
- ALLODERM$122
- VISTASEAL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$103
How this compares
$5,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 850 foot and ankle surgery providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $119 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Miami
- Imaze DavisMiami$147K
- Thomas ZwickMiami$108K
- Bamidele OluponaMiami$68K
- Thomas SangiovanniCoral Gables$2.1M
- Shayne JensenPanama City$1.3M
- Thomas RoukisOrlando$1.1M
- Craig BreslauerStuart$971K
- Bradley LammWest Palm Beach$938K
- Amber ShaneOrlando$830K
- Jonathan BlumKissimmee$814K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.