Mira Baron
Internal Medicine · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1003241340
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $316.
Across 1 payment — averaging $35.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$35
Across 2,246 payments — averaging $13,204 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$12.1M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$9M
- AstraZeneca$2.3M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$1.3M
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$1.1M
- Eli Lilly$1M
- plus $2.8M from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$35100%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 1 | $35 |
How this compares
$35 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.
Other internal medicine in West Palm Beach
- David LiporaceWest Palm Beach$183K
- Haytham ElgammalMiami$2.2M
- Keith RubinFort Lauderdale$2M
- Michael SensionFort Lauderdale$1M
- Quang NguyenOcala$434K
- Luis Correa LunaSanford$412K
- Michael OleksykFort Myers$365K
- Andrew KuykendallTampa$322K
- Howard FederoffCoconut Grove$302K
- Bianka EperjesiovaGainesville$260K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.