Medical Doctor Program year 2023 Reported 2019–2023 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Richard Handler

Nephrology Vero Beach, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1932158235 CMS profile 313991

777 37Th St, Suite C-107, Vero Beach, FL 32960

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General payments

$2,794

123 records reported · program years 2019–2023

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2023

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2023, Richard Handler of Vero Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,794 across 123 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 69th percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2023 General $448 18
2022 General $766 39
2021 General $577 21
2020 General $317 10
2019 General $686 35

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Richard Handler
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Handler were reported at $0. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Richard Handler Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $686 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $317 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $577 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $766 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $448 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $0 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $0 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $496 23 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $239 12 payments
  3. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $210 9 payments
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $210 11 payments
  5. Relypsa, Inc. $146 7 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $143 2 payments
  7. Medtronic, Inc. $125 1 payment
  8. Horizon Therapeutics plc $121 6 payments
  9. Novo Nordisk Inc $119 7 payments
  10. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $115 6 payments
  11. Other $870 39 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Food and Beverage $2,649 119 payments
  2. Education $144 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. LOKELMA $381 17 payments
  2. Kerendia $210 11 payments
  3. ENTRESTO $143 2 payments
  4. Repatha $133 8 payments
  5. Ellipsys $125 1 payment
  6. KRYSTEXXA $121 6 payments
  7. FARXIGA $104 6 payments
  8. Ozempic $100 6 payments
  9. OXLUMO $99 4 payments
  10. Rayaldee $99 5 payments
  11. Other $1,453 68 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 · 17 drugs

Part D claims

300

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$78,741

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

28.3%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

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 15 $22,413
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 30 $20,090
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 14 $17,545
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 11 $15,667
Valsartan Generic 25 $756
Valsartan-Hydrochlorothiazide Valsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide Brand 15 $398
Allopurinol Generic 25 $325
Losartan Potassium Generic 21 $258
Omeprazole Generic 17 $246
Levothyroxine Sodium Generic 20 $222

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 17 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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Records

123 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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 2023

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

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