RxDoctor Payments Data

Martha Hernandez Illas

Rheumatology · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1972517464

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 4 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Amgen accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for rheumatology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $6,335.

$163in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $40.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$125
  • Pfizer$38
$25,023,818in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 240 payments — averaging $104,266 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$16.3M
  • Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2.7M
  • Amgen$2.6M
  • Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$855K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$814K
  • Merck$603K
  • plus $1.1M from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$163100%

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.

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Amgen1$125
Pfizer3$38

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

$163 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

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