RxDoctor Payments Data

Ruben Pipek, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Melbourne, FLNPI 1952385981

Payments from drug & device makers

$55,435in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 292 payments — averaging $189.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$26K
  • Novo Nordisk$10K
  • AstraZeneca$9K
  • Johnson & Johnson$7K
  • Mannkind Corporation$2K
  • AbbVie$522
  • plus $3K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3751%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$45,23782%
  • Travel & lodging$3,4466%
  • Food & beverage$6,35711%
  • Education$190%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$55,435 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 586 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$182,045
Medicare patients
529
Services billed
2,698

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
OzempicSemaglutide255$433,047
MounjaroTirzepatide158$272,334
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol87$112,162
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec116$101,158
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog106$71,373
TrulicityDulaglutide40$70,524
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$55,246
ProliaDenosumab29$49,455
RybelsusSemaglutide21$47,726
TradjentaLinagliptin33$40,317
TymlosAbaloparatide12$32,278
Fiasp FlextouchInsulin Aspart (Niacinamide)34$30,531
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/743$25,823
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$18,977
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart71$13,991

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Novolog$9,591$489,423301 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$163$342,858198 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$8,685$112,16287 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy$136$109,41891 claims
AmgenProlia$199$49,45529 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$151$32,27812 claims
MerckJanuvia$142$18,97713 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$522$11,12999 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$17$3,175243 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 85th percentile of 586 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Florida.

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