RxDoctor Payments Data

Juan Mella, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Miami, FLNPI 1629185897

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,406in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 205 payments — averaging $16.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$426
  • GSK$385
  • Novo Nordisk$377
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$297
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$215
  • Sanofi$200
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,32798%
  • Education$792%

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

$3,406 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 953 pulmonary disease providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,186
Medicare patients
67
Services billed
216

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
Aralast NpAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor27$106,233
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol87$62,051
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter55$42,600
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol44$17,269
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide15$7,656
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate17$3,953
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol31$3,582
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate93$2,688
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$1,544
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate22$1,279
Fluticasone Propionate35$536
Montelukast Sodium68$362
Prednisone73$227
Azithromycin36$155
Levofloxacin34$124

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
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$426$66,003104 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$385$59,86999 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat$115$7,65615 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 45th percentile of 953 pulmonary disease providers in Florida.

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