Nurse Practitioner in Florida
8,290 providers, $14,463,727 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $188.
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 nurse practitioner clinicians in Florida
Across 5,038 nurse practitioner clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $583,457,604 in total — an average of $115,811 each, of which $90,380 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
- 1Jolanta BaginskiClearwater$494,250
- 2Adissa PerezWinter Park$369,633
- 3April WessonTampa$341,705
- 4Margarita FernandezMiami$311,312
- 5Stephanie SimmermanNaples$283,414
- 6Claudette WalkerPonte Vedra Beach$271,025
- 7Lisa NodzonTampa$245,957
- 8Ashima BahlTampa$226,177
- 9Maya BloombergMiami$202,323
- 10Jennifer PuleoTampa$171,076
- 11Christina VaughnGainesville$158,260
- 12Iani SilveiraPinecrest$131,537
- 13Jasmina KatinicSt Petersburg$130,043
- 14Melissa CarverTampa$129,024
- 15Jerrica FariasTampa$126,985
- 16Haydee KapinMiami$97,304
- 17Jason RoyOrlando$94,733
- 18Sara TinsleyTampa$92,905
- 19Stephanie PhillipsPembroke Pines$85,528
- 20Stacy CentenoSarasota$72,530
- 21Deborah GliddenWinter Park$69,176
- 22Mayra LimaPlantation$66,829
- 23Mary FarrJacksonville$65,644
- 24Erin ParkinsonTampa$65,247
- 25Deborah ChandlerOrlando$60,159
- 26Lauren SosdorfZephyrhills$58,943
- 27Terri PollackMiami$58,785
- 28Michele LaineTampa$58,345
- 29Jana BucknerTampa$57,547
- 30Brenda PribilaMiami Lakes$49,604
- 31Michael FrasureWindermere$48,131
- 32Tiffany TrentTampa$46,519
- 33Hilda Ortiz MoralesFort Lauderdale$45,277
- 34Ghazal JameelTampa$41,367
- 35Doreen CassarinoNaples$40,728
- 36Rebekah RharadTampa$36,765
- 37Patricia Novoa-VogtMiami$35,412
- 38Marisol OcampoMiami Beach$32,342
- 39Bonnie MartingJupiter$31,657
- 40Laura TaylorFort Myers$27,153
- 41Candice HarrisTampa$24,727
- 42Leticia AnonPembroke Pines$23,853
- 43Cassidi LugoTampa$23,697
- 44Jennifer BlattnerOrlando$23,660
- 45Moriane JosephMiami$22,723
- 46Kristin FritchTampa$22,363
- 47Joseph OralloJacksonville Beach$22,256
- 48Kathryn ShunnarahRockledge$22,233
- 49Stacey KellyJacksonville$21,872
- 50Jean Sheridan-YoungJacksonville$21,802
- 51Susan WoodwardLakeland$21,739
- 52Ernestina Kyei DonkorWinter Park$21,659
- 53Edwin DiazTampa$21,280
- 54Dawn Rush-WildeClearwater$21,221
- 55Kenneth RyanJacksonville Beach$21,038
- 56Tara McGaheyNaples$20,859
- 57Erica EdlundBoynton Beach$20,627
- 58Patricia DelgadoSt Petersburg$20,532
- 59Heather BlanchetteLargo$19,728
- 60Stephanie ChandlerNaples$19,681