Areena Swarup, MD
Rheumatology · Mesa, AZNPI 1508857301
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 2,382 payments — averaging $1079.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$631K
- Novartis$611K
- Eli Lilly$341K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$317K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$185K
- Regeneron$106K
- plus $379K from 46 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $12,276 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$25K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$29,011100%
- Education$60%
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
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.
- Confirm Rx$775
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$352
- UPTRAVI$250
- OPSUMIT$250
- SAPHNELO$242
- MERLIN@HOME$167
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$165
- Assurity Pacemaker$159
- Micra$147
- KRYSTEXXA$125
- EVENITY$121
- Tavneos$118
- ENSITE PRECISION$106
- LEQVIO$105
- MOUNJARO$101
How this compares
$2,570,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 102 rheumatology providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 93 | $723,688 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 73 | $691,974 |
| OrenciaAbatacept | 32 | $191,936 |
| XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate | 20 | $179,428 |
| EnbrelEtanercept | 14 | $146,760 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 16 | $134,453 |
| OtezlaApremilast | 22 | $125,679 |
| Taltz SyringeIxekizumab | 13 | $85,226 |
| Humira(Cf)Adalimumab | 12 | $79,222 |
| Actemra ActpenTocilizumab | 17 | $66,832 |
| TymlosAbaloparatide | 21 | $64,802 |
| ActemraTocilizumab | 13 | $63,242 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 378 | $21,565 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 714 | $18,688 |
| Leflunomide | 208 | $11,616 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AmgenEnbrel, Otezla | $40,733 | $272,43936 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia | $726 | $191,93632 claims |
| PfizerXeljanz | $2,100 | $179,42820 claims |
| AbbVieHumira(Cf) | $630,984 | $79,22212 claims |
| Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos | $383 | $64,80221 claims |
| Genentech, Inc.Actemra | $3,825 | $63,24213 claims |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine | $17 | $2,71142 claims |
| Dr.reddy's Laboratories,inc.Pregabalin | $98,009 | $39616 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 102 rheumatology providers in Arizona.
Other rheumatology in Mesa
- Ralph BennettMesa$1.3M
- Debra MichelMesa$4K
- Mona AminGlendale$5.5M
- Nehad SolomanPhoenix$4.8M
- John TesserPhoenix$4.8M
- Joon Hee LimGilbert$4.5M
- Andrew SharobeemGlendale$4M
- Swati BharadwajPhoenix$3.4M
- Amer Al-KhoudariChandler$3.3M
- Rajat DharGlendale$3.2M
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.