Sarah Rucker
Acute Care · Altamonte Springs, FLNPI 1386214476
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $45.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$202
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$131
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$129
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$125
- Philips North America LLC$114
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$61521%
- Food & beverage$2,26679%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,161 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $202 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $114 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $112 |
| Amgen | 1 | $97 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $93 |
| Biogen | 1 | $88 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $57 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $49 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Bayer | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| 3b Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 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
$2,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,150 acute care providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 12 | $157 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 16 | $109 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $67 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 16 | $63 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Altamonte Springs
- Kimberly GrantAltamonte Springs$20K
- Tiffany ShearerAltamonte Springs$13K
- Melisa WilsonOrlando$3.6M
- Amanda PeacockJacksonville$81K
- Katrina RileyTampa$66K
- Diane GrayLake Mary$49K
- Heather RamousSafety Harbor$38K
- Melanie WeresJacksonville$37K
- Jayne JaramilloJacksonville$27K
- Melissa HamiltonTampa$23K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.