Erol Atamer
Internal Medicine · Vero Beach, FLNPI 1003812322
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 139 payments — averaging $20.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$551
- Novartis$441
- Novo Nordisk$348
- Pfizer$287
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$216
- Merck$120
- plus $953 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,86698%
- Gifts$502%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 17 | $551 |
| Novartis | 16 | $441 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $348 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $287 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $216 |
| Merck | 10 | $120 |
| GSK | 6 | $120 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $118 |
| Coala Life Inc | 6 | $111 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $109 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $63 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $54 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $51 |
| Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.
Other internal medicine in Vero Beach
- 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.