RxDoctor Payments Data

Jose Lopez, MD

Internal Medicine · Oakland, FLNPI 1306882196

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,656in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 575 payments — averaging $20.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • GSK$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$945
  • Amgen$738
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$671
  • plus $4K from 28 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11,608100%
  • Education$480%

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

$11,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$96,793
Medicare patients
128
Services billed
1,046

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
VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine11$240,742
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol129$145,261
EliquisApixaban72$85,090
JardianceEmpagliflozin51$58,084
OzempicSemaglutide30$46,875
Ondansetron Hcl83$32,052
LinzessLinaclotide19$30,382
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$26,363
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter24$26,137
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide14$12,821
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol53$12,695
Celecoxib137$12,671
Clotrimazole20$12,356
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe17$12,355
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$10,932

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
PfizerVyndaqel, Eliquis$208$325,83283 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$2,934$145,261129 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$174$70,90565 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,828$46,87530 claims
AbbVieLinzess$486$30,38219 claims
NovartisEntresto$126$26,36322 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$1,020$26,13724 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 90th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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