RxDoctor Payments Data

Mario Ruberte, MD

Internal Medicine · Melbourne, FLNPI 1205857240

Payments from drug & device makers

$196in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $21.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$86
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$33
  • Amgen$25
  • Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$22
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$18
  • Johnson & Johnson$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$196100%

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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23

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

$196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$188,134
Medicare patients
413
Services billed
9,240

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
OzempicSemaglutide89$118,333
JardianceEmpagliflozin80$96,754
EliquisApixaban86$82,045
XareltoRivaroxaban28$40,124
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$16,489
MyrbetriqMirabegron19$13,158
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$8,150
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$7,578
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium18$6,678
Levothyroxine Sodium364$6,632
Atorvastatin Calcium392$6,602
LinzessLinaclotide12$6,228
Vilazodone Hcl27$5,716
Rosuvastatin Calcium229$5,336
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide82$4,564

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$18$96,75480 claims
PfizerEliquis$86$82,04586 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$13$40,12428 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 40th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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