RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen Burton, MD

Internal Medicine · St Petersburg, FLNPI 1902850001

Payments from drug & device makers

$739in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $17.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$296
  • GSK$118
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$85
  • AbbVie$51
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$31
  • AstraZeneca$31
  • plus $127 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$72498%
  • Education$152%

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

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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

$739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$215,956
Medicare patients
278
Services billed
1,732

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
EliquisApixaban28$27,878
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$11,285
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$11,078
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter15$10,005
Gabapentin93$1,899
Levothyroxine Sodium118$1,189
Pantoprazole Sodium49$974
Metoprolol Succinate39$916
Potassium Chloride54$861
Atorvastatin Calcium72$807
Montelukast Sodium25$703
Mirtazapine19$673
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate51$632
Duloxetine Hcl27$622
Amlodipine Besylate73$560

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$11$27,87828 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$22$11,28513 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$118$10,00515 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 60th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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