Has Stephanie Frank received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,084 in general payments to Stephanie Frank across 364 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephanie Frank did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephanie Frank come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephanie Frank

Nurse Practitioner · Saint Petersburg, FLNPI 1477951895

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,084in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 364 payments — averaging $33.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
Neuronetics, Inc.$808
Alkermes, Inc.$732
Corium, LLC$590
Johnson & Johnson$512
plus $6K from 39 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$12,072100%
Education$120%

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
AbbVie	83	$2,644
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	28	$1,211
Neuronetics, Inc.	7	$808
Alkermes, Inc.	20	$732
Corium, LLC	21	$590
Johnson & Johnson	13	$512
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	12	$493
Tris Pharma Inc	28	$482
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	15	$447
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$403
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	43	$387
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	16	$274
Argenx US, Inc.	2	$231
Almatica Pharma LLC	10	$215
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$190
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$186
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$138
Eisai Inc.	2	$131
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$130
Corcept Therapeutics	1	$127
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$125
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$125
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$123
Abbott	1	$123
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$121
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$120
Novo Nordisk	1	$116
Bausch Health US, LLC	5	$109
Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$109
Abiomed	1	$100
Neos Therapeutics, LP	6	$92
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$83
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$83
Lundbeck LLC	3	$65
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$41
Harmony Biosciences LLC	1	$36
Avion Pharmaceuticals	2	$35
Medtronic	1	$31
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$19
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	1	$18
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$17
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	1	$14
OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14

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

$12,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,290 nurse practitioner providers in Florida.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Quetiapine Fumarate	29	$606
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate	26	$345
Lamotrigine	40	$322
Buspirone Hcl	11	$314
Aripiprazole	13	$311
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	12	$205
Trazodone Hcl	15	$189
Duloxetine Hcl	11	$156
Alprazolam	36	$153
Fluoxetine Hcl	25	$116
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	11	$104
Clonazepam	18	$92
Benztropine Mesylate	11	$72
Escitalopram Oxalate	12	$66
Zolpidem Tartrate	19	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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April WessonTampa$342K
Margarita FernandezMiami$311K
Stephanie SimmermanNaples$283K
Claudette WalkerPonte Vedra Beach$271K
Lisa NodzonTampa$246K
Ashima BahlTampa$226K
Maya BloombergMiami$202K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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