Sandee Bristow, MD
Pain Medicine · Miami, FLNPI 1629263694
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 219 payments — averaging $28.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA$2K
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$911
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$800
- Redhill Biopharma Inc.$405
- Medtronic$366
- Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$340
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,72027%
- Food & beverage$4,58473%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $1,720 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 53 | $911 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 46 | $800 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 28 | $405 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $366 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $340 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $243 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $205 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $161 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $138 |
| Amgen | 4 | $115 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 3 | $70 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $50 |
| Vertex | 2 | $47 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 2 | $43 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $24 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Novartis | 1 | $23 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $17 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$6,304 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide | 16 | $34,903 |
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 19 | $27,677 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 1,023 | $15,991 |
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 27 | $15,640 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 414 | $7,570 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 18 | $7,481 |
| Pregabalin | 259 | $5,374 |
| Buprenorphine | 23 | $5,094 |
| Gabapentin | 462 | $4,646 |
| Lidocaine | 17 | $2,949 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 417 | $2,868 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 140 | $2,538 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 164 | $1,702 |
| Fentanyl | 24 | $1,577 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 82 | $1,289 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor | $800 | $34,90316 claims |
| PfizerNurtec Odt | $161 | $27,67719 claims |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $911 | $15,64027 claims |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik | $405 | $7,48118 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine, Buprenorphine Hcl | $1,720 | $5,09437 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 70th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.
Other pain medicine in Miami
- Abel MurilloMiami$1.6M
- Jeffrey GudinMiami$378K
- Ramon AlegretMiami$69K
- Anand PatelOrmond Beach$20.4M
- Julio PaezClermont$2.3M
- Joseph PergolizziNaples$2.1M
- George MonluxPalm Coast$1.3M
- Ferdinand FormosoJacksonville$1M
- Cesar LassalleOrlando$1M
- Robert GuirguisTampa$895K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.