Tamelia Lakraj-Edwards, MD
General Practice · Port Saint Lucie, FLNPI 1114367802
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 4 payments — averaging $45.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$125
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$20
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$18
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$17
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$180100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Austedo XR$125
How this compares
$180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 6,901 general practice 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 97 | $2,661 |
| Celecoxib | 38 | $1,500 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $1,161 |
| Pregabalin | 49 | $997 |
| Mirtazapine | 27 | $942 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 15 | $820 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $459 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $420 |
| Metformin Hcl | 30 | $413 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $318 |
| Novolin 70-30 FlexpenInsulin Nph Hum/Reg Insulin Hm | 12 | $268 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 12 | $232 |
| Famotidine | 13 | $226 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 15 | $219 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $210 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general practice in Port Saint Lucie
- Jose CardonaMiami$71M
- Lawrence GalitzMiami Gardens$42.5M
- Armando AcevedoMiami$15.2M
- Jorge AmayaMiami$14.2M
- Frank AlvarezHialeah$13.6M
- Hector RodriguezMiami$12.8M
- Eddie ArmasSouth Miami$12.4M
- Idalia AcostaMiami$11.4M
- Lilia Rodriguez AblesMiami$10.7M
- Jorge Monroy AvellaOcoee$10.6M
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.