Sherif Makar, MD
Neurology · Lake Mary, FLNPI 1184988149
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 96 payments — averaging $37.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$427
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$304
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$189
- Pfizer$178
- Bayer$141
- plus $1K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,49397%
- Education$913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 17 | $1,311 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $427 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $304 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 4 | $189 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $178 |
| Bayer | 2 | $141 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $138 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $74 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $61 |
| C2n Diagnostics, LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Novartis | 3 | $54 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Biogen | 2 | $47 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $39 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Life Molecular Imaging Ltd | 1 | $10 |
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
$3,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,434 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levetiracetam | 46 | $1,859 |
| Dexamethasone | 23 | $550 |
| Famotidine | 37 | $410 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 31 | $337 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $249 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 16 | $181 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $103 |
| Alprazolam | 17 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Lake Mary
- Mark GoldsteinAtlantis$36.1M
- Derrick RobertsonTampa$27.6M
- Beth SafirsteinHallandale Beach$25.7M
- Michael PfefferMiami$24.5M
- Mark BrodyDelray Beach$20.5M
- Paayal PatelWest Palm Beach$17.3M
- Wendy BondFort Myers$14.7M
- William HoneycuttMaitland$14.1M
- Julie SchwartzbardAventura$13.6M
- Rekha GandhiWinter Park$13.4M
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.