RxDoctor Payments Data

Hector Gallego, MD

Internal Medicine · Lake Mary, FLNPI 1568720779

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,137in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $68.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$677
  • AbbVie$393
  • La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$293
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$247
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$207
  • Gilead$125
  • plus $196 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,137100%

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.

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

$2,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$225,003
Medicare patients
377
Services billed
2,768

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
EliquisApixaban225$53,457
OzempicSemaglutide18$18,455
XareltoRivaroxaban45$17,880
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$17,348
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium30$17,071
GemtesaVibegron56$13,939
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine19$10,775
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate41$9,655
TrulicityDulaglutide13$7,551
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.14$6,944
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate21$5,657
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$5,528
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$4,759
Atorvastatin Calcium319$4,456
Potassium Chloride172$4,447

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$34$17,88045 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$38$15,18360 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 80th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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