Who Paid My Doc
Gary Ackerman
Sports Medicine West Palm Beach, FL Medical Doctor
NPI 1710970322 CMS profile 78329
4440 Beacon Cir, Ste 100, West Palm Beach, FL 33407
General payments
$3,629
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$21,964
Through program year 2025, Gary Ackerman of West Palm Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,629 across 88 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $21,964 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 36th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $898 | 15 | |
| 2024 | General | $1,238 | 21 | |
| 2023 | General | $211 | 10 | |
| 2022 | General | $526 | 14 | |
| 2021 | General | $108 | 4 | |
| 2020 | General | $294 | 13 | |
| 2019 | General | $354 | 11 |
Beside peers
- Gary Ackerman
- Sports Medicine median
- Middle half of Sports Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Gary Ackerman were reported at $898. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.
Show as a table
| Year | Gary Ackerman | Sports Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $354 | $1,176 | $199–$4,249 | $163 |
| 2020 | $294 | $708 | $96–$2,890 | $114 |
| 2021 | $108 | $1,213 | $152–$3,994 | $132 |
| 2022 | $526 | $1,230 | $159–$3,998 | $149 |
| 2023 | $211 | $584 | $146–$2,836 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,238 | $628 | $163–$3,168 | $164 |
| 2025 | $898 | $664 | $172–$3,055 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 14 drugsPart D claims
627
Drug cost
$7,497
Branded share of claims
14.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Potassium | Generic | 106 | $2,367 | |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 78 | $1,070 | |
| Cephalexin | Generic | 22 | $973 | |
| Cefdinir | Generic | 27 | $791 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 90 | $389 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 47 | $319 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 58 | $317 | |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | Generic | 17 | $249 | |
| Celecoxib | Generic | 14 | $232 | |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | Generic | 23 | $228 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 122 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$362,162
Medicare patients
433
Services billed
22,441
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 71% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 35% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 23% | |
| Diabetes | 22% | |
| Osteoporosis | 22% | |
| Depression | 18% | |
| Cancer | 17% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronan or derivative, gel-one, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7326 | Office | 24 | 32 | $12,904 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 97 | 16,817 | $1,705 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 | Office | 43 | 175 | $1,281 |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
88 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.