Wendy Gamazo
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 172 payments — averaging $26.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$788
- AbbVie$250
- Pfizer$230
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$184
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$166
- plus $581 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,42697%
- Education$1323%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 78 | $2,360 |
| Medtronic | 37 | $788 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $250 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $230 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $184 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $166 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $69 |
| Novartis | 2 | $45 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 2 | $41 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $39 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $19 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- VRAYLAR$250
- AVEIR$150
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$142
- Confirm Rx$139
- GALLANT$134
- MERLIN@HOME$130
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$119
- BioMonitor$115
- Edora$115
- Acticor$115
- Solia$115
- Rivacor$115
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$100
How this compares
$4,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 14,618 family providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $175 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 12 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Miami
- Stephanie MompointMiami$4.5M
- Itsel Cardenas RamonMiami$1M
- Patrick SzarazMiami$327K
- Yamila MelendezMiami$212K
- Suzan RosenMiami$129K
- Felipe NovoaMiami$110K
- Pamela DudkiewiczMiami$89K
- Stacy FeemsterMiami$51K
- John HuffakerVenice$8M
- Miguel TrujilloMiami Gardens$4.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.