RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Merritt, MD

Otolaryngology · Winter Haven, FLNPI 1528086717

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,713in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $28.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi$402
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$247
  • GSK$201
  • Acclarent, Inc$140
  • Stryker$126
  • Organogenesis Inc.$85
  • plus $511 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$503%
  • Food & beverage$1,61995%
  • Entertainment$443%

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

$1,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 586 otolaryngology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$432,069
Medicare patients
1,381
Services billed
10,307

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
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab22$87,289
Dupixent PenDupilumab12$44,685
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil512$20,665
Epinephrine44$9,003
Ipratropium Bromide228$6,771
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth54$5,507
Fluticasone Propionate363$5,138
Famotidine83$1,069
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone24$853
Prednisone60$845
Mupirocin120$670
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride66$633
Hydrocortisone-Acetic AcidHydrocortisone/Acetic Acid11$613
Montelukast Sodium26$284
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav23$276

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
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine$44$9,00344 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 50th percentile of 586 otolaryngology providers in Florida.

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