RxDoctor Payments Data

Hicham Merheb, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Deerfield Beach, FLNPI 1720073620

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,891in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $34.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$5K
  • Medtronic$182
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$174
  • Baxter Healthcare$124
  • Biotronik NRO, Inc.$65
  • Averitas Pharma Inc.$44
  • plus $257 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,891100%

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

$5,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$47,710
Medicare patients
85
Services billed
759

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
Buprenorphine43$12,496
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl15$11,051
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen135$3,338
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen70$1,282
Gabapentin89$645
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate17$642
Tizanidine Hcl33$550
Meloxicam67$267
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl65$261
Pregabalin32$236
Oxycodone Hcl15$196
Tramadol Hcl34$156
Baclofen15$130
Methocarbamol11$20

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
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca$174$11,05115 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 55th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.

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