RxDoctor Payments Data

Eliyahu Shemesh, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Delray Beach, FLNPI 1952472250

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (39.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 72.2% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,140 and has fallen 74.0% since, to $1,075 in 2025.

$14,020in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 126 payments — averaging $111.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$10K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • AbbVie$494
  • Johnson & Johnson$437
  • Davol Inc.$297
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$181
  • plus $848 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$4,40431%
  • Food & beverage$3,89428%
  • Education$5,50039%
  • Gifts$2232%

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

$14,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 157 colon & rectal surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$409,528
Medicare patients
857
Services billed
2,446

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
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf76$12,399
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates13$727
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen150$498
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip32$320
Cephalexin129$305
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl14$243
Ciprofloxacin Hcl43$144
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav21$99
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim22$47

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
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$22$12,39976 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 65th percentile of 157 colon & rectal surgery providers in Florida.

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