RxDoctor Payments Data

Vivian Birnbaum, MD

Internal Medicine · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1275820383

Payments from drug & device makers

$268in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $19.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$83
  • Novo Nordisk$60
  • Globus Medical$31
  • Novartis$19
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$17
  • Pfizer$17
  • plus $41 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$268100%

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

19
21
24
25

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

$268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$82,240
Medicare patients
153
Services billed
1,039

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
MounjaroTirzepatide42$43,794
EliquisApixaban29$34,311
OzempicSemaglutide26$34,251
TrulicityDulaglutide28$27,061
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$24,707
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl11$5,349
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium37$3,768
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium32$3,324
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone12$2,950
Rosuvastatin Calcium214$2,627
Pantoprazole Sodium110$2,130
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir11$1,429
Atorvastatin Calcium97$1,289
Famotidine49$1,132
Levothyroxine Sodium98$1,120

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$13$70,85570 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$17$35,74040 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$60$34,25126 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbyclor$11$2,95012 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 45th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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