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Hemant Desai, MD

Internal Medicine · Pinellas Park, FLNPI 1851407290

Payments from drug & device makers

$955in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $18.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$225
  • Pfizer$225
  • Bayer$173
  • Lilly USA, LLC$90
  • AstraZeneca$60
  • Johnson & Johnson$48
  • plus $135 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$955100%

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

$955 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,312
Medicare patients
49
Services billed
140

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
EliquisApixaban51$58,600
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$51,146
XareltoRivaroxaban12$13,136
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$12,304
Nifedipine ErNifedipine282$7,490
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate163$7,145
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog19$5,065
Atorvastatin Calcium387$2,999
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol29$2,953
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen129$2,918
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$2,903
Celecoxib63$2,831
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol21$2,341
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen66$2,169
Levothyroxine Sodium221$1,905

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
PfizerEliquis$225$58,60051 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$60$15,20726 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$48$13,13612 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 65th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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