Mercedes Ponce de Leon
Internal Medicine · Miami, FLNPI 1346500782
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,028 of the $2,869 with a category attached, or 70.7%. Chiesi USA, Inc. accounts for 65.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,987 and has fallen 61.9% since, to $757 in 2024.
Across 11 payments — averaging $260.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$2K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$638
- Pfizer$257
- Incyte Corporation$76
- Novartis$17
Across 533 payments — averaging $12,663 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.
- Eisai Inc.$5.2M
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$803K
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$323K
- Insmed, Inc.$174K
- Genentech, Inc.$152K
- Roche Products Limited$93K
- plus $51K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,02871%
- Food & beverage$84129%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $1,879 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $638 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $257 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $76 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
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.
- EUCRISA$107
How this compares
$2,869 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.
Other internal medicine in Miami
- Haytham ElgammalMiami$2.2M
- Richard AguilarMiami$239K
- Maria Delgado LelievreMiami$80K
- Marlow HernandezMiami$58K
- Steven CohnMiami$47K
- Joseph PiperatoMiami$45K
- Simon AbelsonMiami$44K
- Joel Brooks TamayoMiami$42K
- Keith RubinFort Lauderdale$2M
- Michael SensionFort Lauderdale$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.