Artrice Ritchwood
Primary Care · Paterson, NJNPI 1578048567
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,164 of the $3,382 with a category attached, or 64.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 58.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,956 and has fallen 70.6% since, to $575 in 2025.
Across 54 payments — averaging $62.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Novo Nordisk$258
- Medtronic$175
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$173
- AstraZeneca$162
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$149
- plus $501 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08132%
- Food & beverage$2,16464%
- Education$1384%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $1,963 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $258 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $175 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $162 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $149 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $143 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $96 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $96 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $61 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Ozempic$243
- OPTIMIZER$140
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$132
- XARELTO$128
- FARXIGA$125
- LATITUDE Communicator Power Supply$120
How this compares
$3,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 330 primary care providers in New Jersey.
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.
Other primary care in Paterson
- Karam WehbehPaterson$7K
- Desiree FerrandizPaterson$5K
- Miosoty RamosPaterson$4K
- Elizabeth CaraballoPaterson$2K
- Michael Zito GovertNeptune$61K
- Roseann BenantiEnglewood$24K
- Marcelo MarinEnglewood$17K
- Jennifer EdwardsPrinceton$14K
- Mary Grace TolentinoJersey City$9K
- Kevin Robert ReyladoNorth Arlington$8K
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.