Obesity Medicine in Florida
21 providers, $301,314 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $245.
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 obesity medicine clinicians in Florida
Across 10 obesity medicine clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $921,554 in total — an average of $92,155 each, of which $91,378 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
- 1Lisa FerreiraWesley Chapel$182,595
- 2Jawan Ayer ColeTampa$84,865
- 3Bharti ShetyeTampa$21,084
- 4Dauris FiguerasWeston$7,338
- 5Casey BonaquistJacksonville$1,443
- 6Celine GisbertPensacola$1,351
- 7Grettel Rodriguez GarciaVero Beach$553
- 8Kelley LangTallahassee$362
- 9Marci MannaPunta Gorda$353
- 10Lindsay WilesTampa$327
- 11Cynthia LarimerGainesville$245
- 12Theresa MahoneyAmelia Island$159
- 13Paola D'aleman PovedaBoca Raton$139
- 14Tami HornerPinellas Park$113
- 15Manuel CarrazanaOrlando$99
- 16Wilfred AguilaTampa$94
- 17Scott LynchJacksonville$90
- 18Mindy MaistriSt Petersburg$49
- 19Angela FalsWinter Park$34
- 20Lawrence VickmanTampa$17
- 21Kenneth MitchellNiceville$5