Shirmel Richards, APRN
Acute Care · Port St Lucie, FLNPI 1528692795
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 2 payments — averaging $35.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eko Health, Inc.$50
- Valinor Pharma, LLC$21
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5070%
- Food & beverage$2130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eko Health, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $21 |
How this compares
$71 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 1,150 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 17 | $1,786 |
| Carbamazepine | 11 | $1,357 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 13 | $181 |
| Potassium Chloride | 25 | $178 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Port St Lucie
- 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
- Kimberly GrantAltamonte Springs$20K
- Julie ElliottWinter Haven$17K
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.