RxDoctor Payments Data

Biljana Baskot, MD

Internal Medicine · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1871607242

Payments from drug & device makers

$526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $16.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$107
  • Amgen$88
  • Novo Nordisk$77
  • Abbott$56
  • Exact Sciences$51
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$49
  • plus $98 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$526100%

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

$526 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
$43,114
Medicare patients
128
Services billed
346

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
EliquisApixaban71$86,463
OzempicSemaglutide43$61,624
MounjaroTirzepatide30$42,907
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol31$28,612
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab20$18,401
XareltoRivaroxaban12$14,450
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium47$4,775
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir41$2,859
Rosuvastatin Calcium143$2,749
Atorvastatin Calcium199$2,281
Valsartan65$2,077
Levemir FlexpenInsulin Detemir13$1,796
Levothyroxine Sodium125$1,761
Escitalopram Oxalate77$1,471
Metoprolol Succinate54$1,254

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
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$107$89,322112 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$77$61,62443 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$33$28,61231 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$16$4,77547 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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