Don Buswell Charkow
Internal Medicine · Ocoee, FLNPI 1679557169
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 149 payments — averaging $16.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$456
- Johnson & Johnson$377
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$177
- Merck$151
- Boehringer Ingelheim$149
- Lilly USA, LLC$148
- plus $953 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,38599%
- Education$261%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 28 | $456 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $377 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $177 |
| Merck | 13 | $151 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $149 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $148 |
| Amgen | 8 | $128 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $126 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $117 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $68 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $48 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- XARELTO$123
How this compares
$2,411 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.
Other internal medicine in Ocoee
- Yaneicy Gonzalez RojasCoral Gables$93.5M
- Juan Carlos RondonHollywood$66.8M
- Jaynier MoyaPembroke Pines$45.4M
- Mark KutnerMiami$35.7M
- Gilberto JimenezHialeah$35.6M
- Mira BaronWest Palm Beach$29.6M
- William SanchezHialeah$28.9M
- Nelia Sanchez-CrespoHollywood$28.8M
- Kwabena AyesuOrlando$27.6M
- Michael DeverWindermere$24M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.