RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Forster, MD

Internal Medicine · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1437185691

Payments from drug & device makers

$511in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $20.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$179
  • Pfizer$82
  • AstraZeneca$64
  • Boston Scientific$35
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$31
  • Gilead$27
  • plus $92 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$511100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$511 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,363
Medicare patients
288
Services billed
812

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OzempicSemaglutide36$48,102
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$44,601
EliquisApixaban32$26,052
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate20$24,133
TrulicityDulaglutide15$19,101
LinzessLinaclotide11$16,848
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$12,380
MounjaroTirzepatide13$10,905
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$8,205
Aripiprazole15$5,920
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr11$5,141
Atorvastatin Calcium349$3,403
Rosuvastatin Calcium118$2,036
Levothyroxine Sodium157$1,938
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$1,847

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Novo NordiskOzempic$179$48,10236 claims
PfizerEliquis$82$26,05232 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$21$17,52124 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$64$8,20512 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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