RxDoctor Payments Data

Lalita Chulamokha, MD

Infectious Disease · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1326201682

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,654in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $23.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$249
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$210
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$189
  • Gilead$178
  • Shionogi Inc$164
  • Merck$157
  • plus $507 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,654100%

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

$1,654 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 669 infectious disease providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$79,212
Medicare patients
221
Services billed
958

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala47$199,892
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf11$54,013
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat11$26,614
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium26$15,241
Daptomycin25$12,190
Oxacillin Sodium12$9,746
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium19$7,205
Ampicillin Sodium11$5,358
Meropenem15$3,197
Cefazolin Sodium18$762
Lisinopril12$15

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
GileadBiktarvy$178$199,89247 claims
Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix$57$26,61411 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 60th percentile of 669 infectious disease providers in Florida.

Other infectious disease in Fort Myers

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