Has Aruna Baratham, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,844 in general payments to Aruna Baratham, MD across 1,363 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aruna Baratham, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aruna Baratham, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aruna Baratham, MD

Rheumatology · Overland Park, KSNPI 1518989557

Payments from drug & device makers

$22,844in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,363 payments — averaging $16.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
Amgen$3K
AstraZeneca$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Pfizer$1K
Novartis$1K
plus $11K from 43 others

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
AbbVie	192	$3,109
Amgen(2 entities)	168	$2,818
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	97	$2,163
Johnson & Johnson	88	$1,475
Pfizer	109	$1,397
Novartis	82	$1,232
GSK	72	$1,081
UCB, Inc.	60	$950
Lilly USA, LLC	51	$816
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	44	$793
CSL Behring	43	$775
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	48	$771
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	42	$753
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	51	$725
Genentech USA, Inc.	44	$708
Hospira, Inc.	34	$513
Sanofi	21	$421
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	15	$278
Sobi, Inc	7	$191
Pharming Healthcare, Inc.	8	$185
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	8	$147
Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC	7	$139
Organon	7	$120
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	8	$110
Grifols USA, LLC	5	$106
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$90
Sandoz	4	$89
Gilead	3	$68
Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc.	4	$67
Octapharma USA, Inc.	3	$63
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	2	$62
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	3	$60
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	3	$57
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$53
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	3	$49
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$47
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	3	$47
Shire North American Group Inc	3	$46
Celltrion USA Inc.	3	$45
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$40
Optinose US, Inc.	2	$33
Mylan Institutional Inc.	1	$25
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$22
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Invivyd Inc	1	$19
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$18
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	1	$18
Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$13

How this compares

$22,844 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 49 rheumatology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,247,152

Medicare patients

207

Services billed

107,950

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 rheumatology in Overland Park

James AndersonOverland Park$75K
Stephen RuhlmanOverland Park$32K
Arnold KatzOverland Park$25K
Shirley WangOverland Park$19K
Sarah VodopestOverland Park$4K
Jonathan AmosOverland Park$4K
Carrie MihordinOverland Park$4K
Christopher KoenigOverland Park$391
Shadi ShahouriWichita$635K
Basit MalikHutchinson$186K

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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.

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