RxDoctor Payments Data

Anu Sharma, MD

Rheumatology · North Bethesda, MDNPI 1891732848

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,210in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $30.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$562
  • UCB, Inc.$182
  • Johnson & Johnson$170
  • AstraZeneca$84
  • plus $550 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,40033%
  • Food & beverage$2,79166%
  • Education$190%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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

$4,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,299,129
Medicare patients
505
Services billed
81,971

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
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate23$247,264
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab17$155,740
EnbrelEtanercept15$145,586
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept14$141,988
TymlosAbaloparatide21$98,295
OtezlaApremilast19$95,351
Teriparatide23$70,465
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl22$44,219
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium109$4,832
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate23$1,422
Prednisone159$1,400
Celecoxib25$1,211
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen14$837
Alendronate Sodium148$771
Tramadol Hcl51$438

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
AmgenEnbrel, Otezla$562$240,93734 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$18$98,29521 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 55th percentile of 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.

Other rheumatology in North Bethesda

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