RxDoctor Payments Data

Boris Ratiner, MD

Rheumatology · Tarzana, CANPI 1821001496

Payments from drug & device makers

$34,980in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,398 payments — averaging $25.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$7K
  • AbbVie$6K
  • Amgen$5K
  • Johnson & Johnson$4K
  • Novartis$3K
  • UCB, Inc.$1K
  • plus $8K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7,78522%
  • Grants$2401%
  • Travel & lodging$2241%
  • Food & beverage$26,55976%
  • Education$1720%

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

$34,980 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,313,759
Medicare patients
746
Services billed
138,991

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
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab40$421,156
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept37$326,329
RemicadeInfliximab43$317,987
OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose64$289,383
EnbrelEtanercept25$177,857
RinvoqUpadacitinib13$172,096
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate25$154,011
ActemraTocilizumab51$138,782
OtezlaApremilast20$93,690
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg29$73,493
XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate12$66,074
SavellaMilnacipran Hcl13$6,684
Leflunomide113$6,630
Diclofenac Sodium14$5,801
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium227$5,690

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
AmgenEnbrel, Otezla, Evenity (2 Syringes)$5,465$345,04174 claims
Johnson & JohnsonRemicade$3,672$317,98743 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$543$289,38364 claims
AbbVieRinvoq, Savella$5,915$178,78026 claims
PfizerXeljanz$565$66,07412 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 80th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

Other rheumatology in Tarzana

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