Thomas Wade
Internal Medicine · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1619911138
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,015 of the $3,085 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 3 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 57.9% of the total.
Across 20 payments — averaging $154.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$2K
- Pfizer$1K
- Kerecis Limited$22
Across 283 payments — averaging $16,650 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$2.3M
- Pfizer$873K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$666K
- Modernatx, Inc.$307K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$171K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$153K
- plus $263K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,01565%
- Food & beverage$1,07035%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 14 | $1,788 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $1,275 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $22 |
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.
- V114$1,292
- PREVNAR - 13$799
How this compares
$3,085 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.
Other internal medicine in Fort Lauderdale
- Keith RubinFort Lauderdale$2M
- Michael SensionFort Lauderdale$1M
- Sheetal SharmaFort Lauderdale$184K
- Evan WuFort Lauderdale$114K
- Haytham ElgammalMiami$2.2M
- Quang NguyenOcala$434K
- Luis Correa LunaSanford$412K
- Michael OleksykFort Myers$365K
- Andrew KuykendallTampa$322K
- Howard FederoffCoconut Grove$302K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.