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Behnam Khaleghi, MD

Rheumatology · Orange, CANPI 1154306678

Payments from drug & device makers

$700,414in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,490 payments — averaging $470.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$543K
  • Pfizer$62K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$35K
  • Incyte Corporation$31K
  • Amgen$6K
  • AbbVie$5K
  • plus $18K from 36 others
$26,278in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $8759.34 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$26K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$190%
  • Food & beverage$30,83799%
  • Education$2701%

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

$700,414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$255,906
Medicare patients
365
Services billed
5,365

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab69$605,729
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept42$338,672
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate38$287,894
ProliaDenosumab97$157,556
RinvoqUpadacitinib24$156,271
Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab16$107,362
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept19$106,008
OrenciaAbatacept17$96,467
ForteoTeriparatide22$93,599
OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose14$58,296
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab11$53,425
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg21$53,374
ActemraTocilizumab14$48,008
Teriparatide19$38,111
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate246$9,363

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
AmgenProlia, Evenity (2 Syringes)$5,917$210,930118 claims
AbbVieRinvoq$5,156$156,27124 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia, Orencia$370$154,76431 claims
Lilly USA, LLCForteo$3,561$93,59922 claims
Alvogen IncTeriparatide$92$38,11119 claims
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLCSodium Chloride$349$10330 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 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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