Beth Safirstein
Neurology · Hallandale Beach, FLNPI 1851565287
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Merck accounts for 93.0% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for neurology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $1,698.
Across 9 payments — averaging $198.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$125
Across 1,702 payments — averaging $15,151 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.
- Merck$7.4M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$4.9M
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$2M
- AbbVie$1.3M
- Valneva Austria GmbH$1.3M
- H. Lundbeck A S$1.3M
- plus $7.5M from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00056%
- Travel & lodging$49027%
- Food & beverage$29717%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 6 | $1,662 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $125 |
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
$1,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,434 neurology providers in Florida.
Other neurology in Hallandale Beach
- Stuart IsaacsonBoca Raton$3.9M
- Selim BenbadisTampa$2.1M
- Derrick RobertsonTampa$1.8M
- Robert HauserTampa$1.6M
- David RoseTampa$1.4M
- Matthew BakerNaples$1.4M
- Donald NegroskiSarasota$1.4M
- Mark CascioneTampa$1.2M
- Lance KimOcala$1M
- Tuan VuTampa$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.