RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Bloom, MD

Pain Medicine · Merritt Island, FLNPI 1184661415

Payments from drug & device makers

$419in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $19.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertos Medical, Inc.$82
  • Pfizer$69
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$67
  • Abbott$62
  • Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$44
  • Almatica Pharma LLC$19
  • plus $77 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$419100%

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
21

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

$419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$119,967
Medicare patients
199
Services billed
1,383

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl31$26,520
LyricaPregabalin12$10,835
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen205$5,455
Pregabalin102$5,212
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen205$4,550
Gabapentin197$4,300
Gabapentin ErGabapentin12$3,113
Lidocaine27$2,747
Diclofenac Sodium14$1,834
Methadone Hcl59$1,816
Duloxetine Hcl60$1,746
Fentanyl20$1,258
Morphine Sulfate43$1,134
Oxycodone Hcl98$1,106
Tramadol Hcl86$742

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
PfizerLyrica$69$10,83512 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 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.

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