Christy Mezger
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 140 payments — averaging $21.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$420
- Pfizer$321
- Lilly USA, LLC$259
- Biogen$236
- Boehringer Ingelheim$231
- GSK$166
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,972100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 35 | $420 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $321 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $259 |
| Biogen | 3 | $236 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $231 |
| GSK | 9 | $166 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $149 |
| Novartis | 7 | $135 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Gilead | 1 | $130 |
| Bayer | 4 | $93 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $76 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $69 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $68 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Amgen | 3 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $41 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $29 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Austedo XR$131
- Livdelzi$130
- INGREZZA$124
How this compares
$2,972 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 14,618 family providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mirtazapine | 12 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Ocala
- Kelly BowmanOcala$316K
- John HuffakerVenice$8M
- Stephanie MompointMiami$4.5M
- Miguel TrujilloMiami Gardens$4.4M
- Itsel Cardenas RamonMiami$1M
- Lewis HarringtonTampa$954K
- Adam StrosbergFort Lauderdale$859K
- Danielle PharesFt Lauderdale$713K
- David RodriguezHialeah$658K
- Donna OrtizOrlando$417K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.