RxDoctor Payments Data

Pamela Stearns, MD

Internal Medicine · Pembroke Pines, FLNPI 1376581801

Payments from drug & device makers

$141,010in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 315 payments — averaging $447.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$91K
  • Novartis$34K
  • Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$11K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$584
  • Novo Nordisk$476
  • plus $3K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,285100%
  • Education$120%

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

$141,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$60,067
Medicare patients
148
Services billed
923

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin127$143,665
EliquisApixaban65$60,415
OzempicSemaglutide28$37,345
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl36$26,599
ProliaDenosumab15$26,274
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate20$21,347
XareltoRivaroxaban13$20,188
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter22$19,102
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol24$18,648
RybelsusSemaglutide16$16,896
LinzessLinaclotide12$13,311
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol17$8,992
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab12$6,771
Atorvastatin Calcium695$5,079
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog19$3,314

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$1,028$143,665127 claims
PfizerEliquis$312$60,41565 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$476$54,24144 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$345$28,09439 claims
AmgenProlia$359$26,27415 claims
MerckJanuvia$107$21,34720 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$18$20,18813 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$317$18,64824 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$90,519$15,43337 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 95th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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