RxDoctor Payments Data

Shawn Berkowitz, MD

Geriatric Medicine · Tampa, FLNPI 1063479798

Payments from drug & device makers

$461in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $20.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$76
  • Novo Nordisk$63
  • Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$38
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$31
  • AbbVie$23
  • Pfizer$23
  • plus $207 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$461100%

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

23
24

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.

How this compares

$461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 305 geriatric medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$34,309
Medicare patients
64
Services billed
401

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
EliquisApixaban32$24,246
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$22,499
OzempicSemaglutide11$10,799
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate19$4,563
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate38$1,081
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen45$1,010
Omeprazole61$936
Metoprolol Succinate47$813
Amiodarone Hcl15$628
Rosuvastatin Calcium29$600
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl15$588
Atorvastatin Calcium93$555
Levothyroxine Sodium58$549
Duloxetine Hcl26$508
Gabapentin55$507

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
PfizerEliquis$23$24,24632 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$23$22,49926 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$63$10,79911 claims
GSKArnuity Ellipta$19$4,56319 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 55th percentile of 305 geriatric medicine providers in Florida.

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