Arun Rajan
Internal Medicine · Bethesda, MDNPI 1316111776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $25 of the $39 with a category attached, or 63.9%. Novartis accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $161.
Across 2 payments — averaging $19.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$25
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$14
Across 1 payment — averaging $551,652 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.
- Pfizer$552K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2564%
- Education$1436%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$39 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.
Other internal medicine in Bethesda
- Matthew MintzBethesda$135K
- Micaela IantornoBethesda$26K
- Marianne MannHighland$2.1M
- Param DedhiaBaltimore$636K
- Curtis RosebraughAshton$418K
- Mark CorriereColumbia$402K
- Gregory PokrywkaTowson$377K
- Shawn DhillonBaltimore$227K
- Brian HarveyAnnapolis$220K
- Jeremy SugarmanBaltimore$210K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.