RxDoctor Payments Data

Melissa Blom, MD

Rheumatology · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1518288406

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,784in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 579 payments — averaging $20.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$4K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$2K
  • UCB, Inc.$894
  • Johnson & Johnson$801
  • Pfizer$574
  • AbbVie$561
  • plus $3K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11,761100%
  • Education$230%

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

$11,784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$43,814
Medicare patients
135
Services billed
928

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
IlarisCanakinumab/Pf12$453,305
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept53$421,440
OrenciaAbatacept13$75,526
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept12$74,010
KevzaraSarilumab14$60,704
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate180$6,769
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium224$6,244
Leflunomide44$2,549
Prednisone305$2,318
Cevimeline Hcl14$1,245
Sulfasalazine32$808
Methylprednisolone44$760
Folic Acid60$648
Allopurinol18$111
Meloxicam14$41

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
NovartisIlaris$142$453,30512 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$85$75,52613 claims
SanofiKevzara$88$60,70414 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 55th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

Other rheumatology in Fort Myers

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