Stephen Shortlidge
Family Medicine · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1962481234
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 66 payments — averaging $21.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Foundation Medicine, Inc.$161
- AstraZeneca$133
- Merck$131
- Novartis$107
- Sanofi$80
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$76
- plus $703 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,391100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $133 |
| Merck | 5 | $131 |
| Novartis | 7 | $107 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $80 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $64 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $47 |
| EUSA Pharma (US) LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Seagen Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $18 |
| Acrotech Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $15 |
| Partner Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Clonazepam | 11 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Fort Myers
- Hugh ColemanDaytona Beach$115.5M
- Alexander WhiteDaytona Beach$69.7M
- Ronald SurowitzJupiter$38.3M
- Bruce RankinDeland$36.7M
- Keila HooverMiami$33.7M
- John NardandreaOcala$30.8M
- Jorge CasoMiami$22.6M
- Sharrell CooperPalm Coast$16.9M
- Christopher GallowayMelbourne$15.6M
- Dario AltamiranoHialeah$15.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.