Alfred Rathinam, MD
Hospitalist · Athens, GANPI 1629287776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,650 of the $5,873 with a category attached, or 62.2%. Cardinal Health 110 LLC accounts for 62.2% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,193 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $126 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 122 payments — averaging $48.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cardinal Health 110 LLC$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$558
- Amgen$265
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$264
- Boehringer Ingelheim$201
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$180
- plus $754 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,65062%
- Food & beverage$2,22338%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Health 110 LLC | 6 | $3,650 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $558 |
| Amgen | 16 | $265 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $264 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $201 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $180 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $158 |
| Novartis | 6 | $133 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 4 | $88 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Gilead | 4 | $64 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $49 |
| Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $27 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$5,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 812 hospitalist providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf | 15 | $4,388 |
| ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf | 19 | $3,974 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Athens
- Sri Krishna MukkamalaCumming$240K
- Annie ParkCanton$19K
- Philippa AmeneGainesville$11K
- Anna SikodGainesville$9K
- Emilio LacayoAtlanta$9K
- Mukesh KumarAtlanta$6K
- Stanley SmithNewnan$6K
- Amaka EzimoraAtlanta$6K
- Anum NiaziMacon$5K
- Pramod KakaralaAtlanta$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.