Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Gaston Ponte

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Melbourne, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1518168293 CMS profile 113574

1223 Gateway Dr, Melbourne, FL 32901

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General payments

$905,925

1,563 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Gaston Ponte of Melbourne, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $905,925 across 1,563 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism 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 $139,527 185
2024 General $98,535 179
2023 General $112,081 205
2022 General $166,133 278
2021 General $146,456 231
2020 General $115,045 205
2019 General $128,147 280

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Gaston Ponte
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median
  • Middle half of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Gaston Ponte were reported at $139,527. Among 5,868 Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles paid that year, the median was $507 and the middle half received between $135 and $1,838.

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Year Gaston Ponte Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median Middle half National median
2019 $128,147 $494 $123–$2,253 $163
2020 $115,045 $335 $85–$1,841 $114
2021 $146,456 $398 $88–$1,981 $132
2022 $166,133 $364 $88–$1,568 $149
2023 $112,081 $420 $113–$1,614 $160
2024 $98,535 $440 $121–$1,646 $164
2025 $139,527 $507 $135–$1,838 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novo Nordisk Inc $371,730 452 payments
  2. Lilly USA, LLC $343,971 483 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $99,894 142 payments
  4. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $67,897 116 payments
  5. Corcept Therapeutics $9,763 35 payments
  6. Dexcom, Inc. $3,569 6 payments
  7. Medtronic, Inc. $1,638 25 payments
  8. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $994 42 payments
  9. Amgen Inc. $725 33 payments
  10. Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. $593 6 payments
  11. Other $5,151 223 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $767,469 547 payments
  2. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $38,640 21 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $31,331 746 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $30,780 226 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $16,465 8 payments
  6. Consulting Fee $13,425 7 payments
  7. Honoraria $7,776 4 payments
  8. Education $39 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Ozempic $180,318 249 payments
  2. RYBELSUS $139,591 191 payments
  3. MOUNJARO $138,644 190 payments
  4. JARDIANCE Diabetes $74,551 110 payments
  5. JARDIANCE Diabetes $60,114 100 payments
  6. TRULICITY $48,279 63 payments
  7. FreeStyle Libre 3 $45,854 68 payments
  8. Tresiba $22,598 25 payments
  9. FreeStyle Libre 2 $14,225 25 payments
  10. FREESTYLE LIBRE $12,857 14 payments
  11. Other $65,033 499 payments

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 · 70 drugs

Part D claims

4,538

Median for Endocrinology: 1,959

Drug cost

$2,475,802

Median for Endocrinology: $890,201

Branded share of claims

56.7%

Median for Endocrinology: 57%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 508 $804,342
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 369 $405,916
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 98 $158,853
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 124 $153,165
Tresiba Flextouch U-100 Insulin Degludec Brand 200 $134,624
Soliqua 100-33 Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide Brand 93 $120,535
Xultophy 100-3.6 Insulin Degludec/Liraglutide Brand 56 $117,015
Tresiba Flextouch U-200 Insulin Degludec Brand 85 $74,288
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 59 $64,166
Humatrope Somatropin Brand 15 $57,142

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 70 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 6,527 Part D prescribers listed as Endocrinology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 23 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$106,643

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

637

Average age 73

Services billed

1,780

388 women, 249 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Diabetes 61%
Arthritis 55%
Chronic kidney disease 51%
Ischemic heart disease 35%
Osteoporosis 25%
Depression 24%
Atrial fibrillation 21%

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 9 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
MOUNJARO
$42,609 124 —
RYBELSUS
$14,504 17 —
JARDIANCE
$11,388 369 —
Ozempic
$6,311 508 —
Korlym
$838 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,563 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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