Emergency in Florida
10 providers, $3,356 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays emergency clinicians in Florida
Across 3 emergency clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $67,389 in total — an average of $22,463 each, of which $22,463 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Tatiana OrtizTamarac$1,340
- 2Nancy DocturaMiami$527
- 3Matthew MeyerLeesburg$510
- 4Maritza KandzerSt Petersburg$271
- 5Kellie OliverDebary$222
- 6Laurel SinclairPlantation$217
- 7Maria CressmanWinter Haven$99
- 8John McSweenFort Pierce$96
- 9Darleen WilliamsOrlando$57
- 10Aldrin BallartaHomestead$18