RxDoctor Payments Data

John Ardesia, DO

Internal Medicine · Ft Myers, FLNPI 1619979572

Payments from drug & device makers

$115in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $14.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$53
  • Pfizer$37
  • Merck$15
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$115100%

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

19
20

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

$115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$268,567
Medicare patients
731
Services billed
4,260

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
EliquisApixaban154$223,747
XareltoRivaroxaban40$52,153
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$27,799
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$22,320
Rosuvastatin Calcium601$8,544
Levothyroxine Sodium642$5,548
Losartan Potassium423$4,371
Atorvastatin Calcium476$4,163
Metoprolol Succinate288$4,080
Pantoprazole Sodium316$3,961
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium12$3,861
Ezetimibe145$3,817
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium66$3,771
Amlodipine Besylate483$3,583
Omeprazole247$3,306

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$37$223,747154 claims
MerckJanuvia$15$22,32014 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 25th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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