RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Berdick, MD

Internal Medicine · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1720063993

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,294in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $16.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$411
  • Amgen$222
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$129
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$71
  • Dexcom, Inc.$68
  • AstraZeneca$63
  • plus $330 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,28299%
  • Education$131%

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.

How this compares

$1,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,161
Medicare patients
135
Services billed
858

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
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate19$47,076
EliquisApixaban23$13,414
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine245$7,191
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$6,187
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate117$3,904
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine151$3,812
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole17$3,155
Epinephrine11$2,752
Gabapentin232$2,405
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine73$2,389
Tramadol Hcl246$2,187
Alprazolam543$2,124
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate40$2,101
Oxcarbazepine21$1,920
Cephalexin195$1,826

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$411$13,41423 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 70th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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