RxDoctor Payments Data

Fernando Lopez-Ivern, MD

Internal Medicine · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1508881889

Payments from drug & device makers

$279in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $69.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$141
  • Medtronic$120
  • Novartis$18

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$279100%

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

19
20
24

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Gilead2$141
Medtronic1$120
Novartis1$18

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

$279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$377,767
Medicare patients
341
Services billed
2,894

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
EliquisApixaban98$54,709
OzempicSemaglutide32$36,342
MounjaroTirzepatide28$29,741
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$26,885
MyrbetriqMirabegron14$11,632
XareltoRivaroxaban15$10,091
TradjentaLinagliptin18$9,689
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$9,203
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium23$8,098
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl34$7,388
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin11$6,095
BelsomraSuvorexant12$5,367
Potassium Chloride113$5,323
Gabapentin184$4,027
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.11$3,555

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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