RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Bala, MD

Family Medicine · Lakeland, FLNPI 1124008156

Payments from drug & device makers

$297in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $18.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$77
  • Novo Nordisk$68
  • Dexcom, Inc.$64
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$37
  • Novartis$19
  • Pfizer$19
  • plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$297100%

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

$297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$62,440
Medicare patients
130
Services billed
1,722

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
EliquisApixaban139$122,708
OzempicSemaglutide65$71,632
JardianceEmpagliflozin51$69,926
RybelsusSemaglutide26$39,883
TrulicityDulaglutide25$25,274
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab20$24,122
MounjaroTirzepatide20$22,289
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$22,100
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$19,299
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec18$18,723
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter26$17,700
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$14,584
TradjentaLinagliptin19$13,532
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog13$10,101
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$9,576

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$19$122,708139 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$68$111,51591 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$37$83,45870 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$14$47,56445 claims
NovartisEntresto$19$19,29911 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$77$5,24897 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 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.

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