Gary Helfin, MD
Family Medicine · Dunnellon, FLNPI 1093739609
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 388 payments — averaging $17.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$785
- Lilly USA, LLC$553
- Amgen$388
- Johnson & Johnson$367
- Novartis$288
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,660100%
- Education$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 139 | $2,080 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 37 | $785 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 35 | $553 |
| Amgen | 23 | $388 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 27 | $367 |
| Novartis | 16 | $288 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $282 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 11 | $250 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $214 |
| Exact Sciences | 8 | $196 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $179 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $169 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $137 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 6 | $124 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $106 |
| Bayer | 4 | $83 |
| GSK | 4 | $73 |
| Biogen | 4 | $55 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $52 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $37 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $23 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- SOLIQUA 100/33$106
How this compares
$6,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 76 | $92,957 |
| EliquisApixaban | 71 | $88,518 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 55 | $69,537 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 28 | $30,214 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 24 | $27,722 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 18 | $16,851 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 20 | $16,323 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 19 | $14,525 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 20 | $12,541 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 11 | $10,682 |
| Humalog Mix 75-25 KwikpenInsulin Lispro Protamin/Lispro | 11 | $10,137 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 52 | $8,187 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 85 | $6,836 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 16 | $5,947 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 15 | $5,571 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Premarin, Paxlovid | $282 | $95,502133 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $2,080 | $92,95776 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $367 | $69,53755 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat | $179 | $42,24743 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $553 | $30,21428 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $169 | $23,159105 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $73 | $21,75830 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $214 | $13,70822 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $137 | $12,54120 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 90th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
Other family medicine in Dunnellon
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.