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Nina Pearlmutter, MD

Internal Medicine · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1205870185

Payments from drug & device makers

$208in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $26.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$60
  • Amgen$58
  • Abiomed$39
  • Pfizer$34
  • Novartis$18

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$208100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Smith+Nephew1$60
Amgen3$58
Abiomed1$39
Pfizer2$34
Novartis1$18

How this compares

$208 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
$209,568
Medicare patients
60
Services billed
2,922

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
EliquisApixaban44$37,108
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$7,986
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr11$5,554
Colesevelam Hcl14$3,583
Rosuvastatin Calcium128$2,450
Montelukast Sodium117$1,256
Pentoxifylline36$1,243
Pantoprazole Sodium87$1,154
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium13$1,128
Irbesartan40$1,059
Ezetimibe31$1,055
Midodrine Hcl26$1,022
Levothyroxine Sodium55$952
Gabapentin53$902
Hydralazine Hcl28$777

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
PfizerEliquis$34$37,10844 claims
NovartisEntresto$18$7,98612 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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