Top Physician Assistant in Florida by Industry Payments

This analysis ranks the top physician assistant practitioners in Florida by total payments received from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, based on CMS Open Payments data. The 20 providers listed here collectively received $3,069,200 over the covered period.

Data source: CMS Open Payments + Medicare Part B Coverage: 2021–2024 Providers analyzed: 20 State: Florida
$3,069,200
Total Industry Payments
Across all providers in this analysis
20
Providers Analyzed
With at least one payment on record
$102,970
Median Total Payments
Half of providers received more, half received less
Context: Industry payments to physicians are legally required to be disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. Payments may reflect consulting expertise, research participation, or speaking engagements. This data is provided to support transparency, not to render clinical judgments.

Top Physician Assistant by Total Industry Payments — Florida

CMS Open Payments
# Provider Total Payments Companies Years Active
1
Clearwater, FL
$466,231
17 2021–2024
2
Tampa, FL
$341,705
2 2021–2022
3
Tampa, FL
$276,292
81 2021–2024
4
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
$263,175
5 2021–2024
5
Tampa, FL
$228,971
23 2021–2024
6
Naples, FL
$227,561
31 2021–2024
7
Largo, FL
$206,347
19 2021–2024
8
Gainesville, FL
$126,196
13 2021–2024
9
Tampa, FL
$110,579
62 2021–2024
10
Jacksonville, FL
$102,970
55 2021–2024
11
Miami, FL
$97,304
8 2021–2024
12
Jasmina Katinic
St Petersburg, FL
$94,468
14 2021–2024
13
Tampa, FL
$92,367
13 2021–2024
14
Miami Beach, FL
$75,525
19 2021–2024
15
Tampa, FL
$74,448
9 2021–2024
16
Orlando, FL
$68,716
8 2021–2024
17
Jacksonville, FL
$56,708
26 2021–2024
18
Tampa, FL
$54,104
5 2021–2024
19
Port Charlotte, FL
$53,026
56 2021–2024
20
Tampa, FL
$52,506
38 2021–2024

State payment context — Physician Assistant in Florida

CMS Open Payments

Beyond the top recipients listed above, 5,219 physician assistant providers in Florida have at least one disclosed industry payment, totaling $10,162,076 (2018–2024).

The median physician assistant provider in Florida received $385 in total payments, versus a national median of $294 for the same specialty.

Payments to this specialty in Florida peaked in 2024, when $3,042,944 changed hands across 70,906 transactions. Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC has been the largest single payer over the period, and Tampa leads all Florida cities in payment volume for this specialty.

Top companies paying Physician Assistant providers in Florida

Company Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $739,279 865 6,246
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $711,879 1,507 10,785
ABBVIE INC. $677,312 1,793 19,727
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $388,582 1,115 10,228
Amgen Inc. $295,151 1,307 9,939
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $251,357 680 8,803
Allergan, Inc. $226,964 245 1,472
Novo Nordisk Inc $220,123 956 8,353

Industry payments to Physician Assistant providers in Florida by year

Year Total payments Providers paid Transactions
2018 $2,576 4 34
2019 $1,032 5 13
2020 $225 4 9
2021 $1,832,409 2,843 46,891
2022 $2,488,257 3,227 55,808
2023 $2,794,634 3,641 65,277
2024 $3,042,944 3,883 70,906

Top Florida cities for Physician Assistant industry payments

City Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Tampa $1,946,918 427 19,625
Miami $667,282 475 14,036
Clearwater $564,190 50 4,593
Jacksonville $525,986 395 11,817
Orlando $469,224 311 13,144
Naples $404,817 81 6,696
Gainesville $295,717 133 4,115
Ponte Vedra Beach $274,970 11 676
Methodology Providers filtered to Florida-licensed physician assistant practitioners (NPI taxonomy code 363L00000X) with at least one Open Payments record. Payments aggregated across all years and all payment types. Rankings reflect cumulative totals, not annualized figures. Data source: CMS Open Payments, accessed via doctransparency.com database.
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