RxDoctor Payments Data

Jose Rodriguez, MD

Internal Medicine · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1548506553

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,364,816in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 110 payments — averaging $12,407 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Regeneron$886K
  • Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$243K
  • Sekisui Diagnostics LLC$136K
  • Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$50K
  • Novartis$20K
  • GSK$12K
  • plus $18K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$509100%

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

$1,364,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$149,208
Medicare patients
401
Services billed
1,631

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
EliquisApixaban13$7,050
Pantoprazole Sodium57$363
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate11$264
Cefdinir21$262
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst12$258
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav34$189
Levothyroxine Sodium31$174
Amlodipine Besylate28$160
Torsemide16$142
Tamsulosin Hcl29$140
Ciprofloxacin Hcl17$116
Metoprolol Succinate22$116
Atorvastatin Calcium20$103
Lisinopril17$94
Metronidazole13$86

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$59$7,05013 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 95th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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