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Amro Balki, MD

Rheumatology · Santa Monica, CANPI 1922237593

Payments from drug & device makers

$465,037in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 2,126 payments — averaging $218.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$147K
  • Johnson & Johnson$113K
  • Sanofi$58K
  • UCB, Inc.$49K
  • Novartis$46K
  • AbbVie$14K
  • plus $38K from 46 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$74,94816%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$285,64161%
  • Travel & lodging$49,22211%
  • Food & beverage$54,75912%
  • Education$4660%

General payments by program year

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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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$465,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$174,316
Medicare patients
417
Services billed
6,020

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab30$290,203
RinvoqUpadacitinib37$249,285
OtezlaApremilast29$153,749
TymlosAbaloparatide44$125,272
Enbrel MiniEtanercept13$94,020
Cosentyx Sensoready PenSecukinumab12$90,874
EnbrelEtanercept13$88,867
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate13$71,514
KevzaraSarilumab16$69,188
ForteoTeriparatide17$68,752
ProliaDenosumab28$48,803
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg15$35,531
RasuvoMethotrexate/Pf29$16,211
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium250$8,443
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate158$7,758

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AmgenOtezla, Enbrel, Prolia, Evenity (2 Syringes)$146,529$326,94985 claims
AbbVieRinvoq$13,595$249,28537 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$502$125,27244 claims
SanofiKevzara$57,871$69,18816 claims
Lilly USA, LLCForteo$2,058$68,75217 claims
Medexus Pharma, Inc.Rasuvo$3,874$16,21129 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$83$1,85130 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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