RxDoctor Payments Data

Anthony Afong, MD

Pain Medicine · Port St Lucie, FLNPI 1801864160

Payments from drug & device makers

$18,172in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 494 payments — averaging $36.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Abbott$3K
  • Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
  • MML US, Inc.$2K
  • Vertos Medical, Inc.$1K
  • plus $6K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6213%
  • Travel & lodging$4,27524%
  • Food & beverage$13,27673%

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.

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

$18,172 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$217,322
Medicare patients
223
Services billed
10,040

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
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate118$54,335
Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl21$34,643
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,571$26,301
Buprenorphine57$18,327
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl24$18,320
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl76$11,414
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate379$8,345
Pregabalin262$8,243
Fentanyl77$7,353
Hysingla ErHydrocodone Bitartrate13$7,044
ButransBuprenorphine11$5,942
Oxymorphone Hcl ErOxymorphone Hcl11$5,339
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl92$4,534
Hydromorphone ErHydromorphone Hcl17$4,293
Tramadol Hcl385$3,769

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
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Xtampza Er, Nucynta Er, Nucynta$885$107,298163 claims
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine, Buprenorphine-Naloxone, Morphine Sulfate$11$32,083277 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 85th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.

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