Sarah Arvaneh
Internal Medicine · Gainesville, FLNPI 1265881577
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,452 of the $6,136 with a category attached, or 72.5%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 44.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,183 and has fallen 70.6% since, to $643 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 80 payments — averaging $76.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- AbbVie$691
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$369
- Johnson & Johnson$276
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$262
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$216
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,60426%
- Food & beverage$4,45273%
- Education$801%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 26 | $2,747 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $691 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $369 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $276 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $216 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $154 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $141 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $138 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $137 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Gilead | 1 | $118 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $116 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $116 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Abbott | 2 | $79 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$6,136 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,530 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 14 | $399 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Gainesville
- Bianka EperjesiovaGainesville$260K
- Yaseen PerbtaniGainesville$47K
- Haytham ElgammalMiami$2.2M
- Keith RubinFort Lauderdale$2M
- Michael SensionFort Lauderdale$1M
- Quang NguyenOcala$434K
- Luis Correa LunaSanford$412K
- Michael OleksykFort Myers$365K
- Andrew KuykendallTampa$322K
- Howard FederoffCoconut Grove$302K
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.