RxDoctor Payments Data

Sailendra Upendram, MD

Internal Medicine · Englewood, FLNPI 1205043536

Payments from drug & device makers

$347in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $31.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$166
  • Boston Scientific$47
  • Johnson & Johnson$33
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$30
  • Novartis$24
  • Amgen$19
  • plus $28 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$31591%
  • Education$339%

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.

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

$347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$443,564
Medicare patients
1,035
Services billed
5,557

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
EliquisApixaban528$733,139
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab182$232,379
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan61$108,179
XareltoRivaroxaban56$85,822
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab64$84,352
MultaqDronedarone Hcl19$34,945
BrilintaTicagrelor29$31,120
Praluent PenAlirocumab28$22,505
Ranolazine ErRanolazine138$17,160
Metoprolol Succinate726$9,843
Digoxin244$6,252
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate498$5,697
Prasugrel Hcl42$4,963
Ezetimibe206$4,410
Atorvastatin Calcium442$4,170

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
NovartisEntresto$24$108,17961 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$33$85,82256 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 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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