Eric Folkens
Family Medicine · Bradenton, FLNPI 1770578916
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 374 payments — averaging $14,371 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$2.7M
- Eisai Inc.$926K
- Novartis$412K
- Amgen$373K
- Genentech, Inc.$353K
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$183K
- plus $468K from 13 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $1328.41 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.
- Eli Lilly$28K
- Novo Nordisk AS$2K
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$544
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,03162%
- Food & beverage$1,89738%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 29 | $2,658,207 |
| Eisai Inc. | 86 | $926,483 |
| Novartis | 19 | $412,336 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 14 | $373,210 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 27 | $352,962 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 8 | $183,171 |
| UCB SA | 11 | $131,906 |
| Gilead | 13 | $87,436 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $82,815 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 131 | $75,794 |
| Biogen | 2 | $36,195 |
| Roche Products Limited | 13 | $24,277 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 6 | $15,686 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $9,375 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $3,500 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $900 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $133 |
| Abbott | 1 | $124 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
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
$5,374,621 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
Other family medicine in Bradenton
- Hugh ColemanDaytona Beach$115.5M
- Alexander WhiteDaytona Beach$69.7M
- Ronald SurowitzJupiter$38.3M
- Bruce RankinDeland$36.7M
- Keila HooverMiami$33.7M
- John NardandreaOcala$30.8M
- Jorge CasoMiami$22.6M
- Sharrell CooperPalm Coast$16.9M
- Christopher GallowayMelbourne$15.6M
- Dario AltamiranoHialeah$15.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.