RxDoctor Payments Data

Giovanni Baula, MD

Internal Medicine · Gulfport, FLNPI 1699760181

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,513in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $23.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$200
  • GSK$193
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$167
  • Johnson & Johnson$109
  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$99
  • Pfizer$90
  • plus $654 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$20013%
  • Food & beverage$1,30086%
  • Education$131%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$99,950
Medicare patients
150
Services billed
983

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
XifaxanRifaximin24$34,375
EliquisApixaban30$8,795
MyrbetriqMirabegron23$5,926
XareltoRivaroxaban21$5,602
RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate11$1,539
Memantine Hcl13$1,433
Levetiracetam13$1,273
Lactulose17$1,134
Atorvastatin Calcium49$838
Gabapentin39$795
Mirtazapine12$614
Carvedilol27$484
Levothyroxine Sodium48$404
Sertraline Hcl30$391
Montelukast Sodium21$380

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$52$34,37524 claims
PfizerEliquis$90$8,79530 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$24$5,92623 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$109$5,60221 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 75th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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