RxDoctor Payments Data

Deepan Dalal, MD

Rheumatology · Cranston, RINPI 1962720441

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.6%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 56.1% of the total. Among rheumatology clinicians in RI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$122,037in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 824 payments — averaging $148.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$68K
  • AbbVie$15K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$9K
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$8K
  • Amgen$8K
  • Pfizer$4K
  • plus $9K from 27 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$23,99520%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$69,07357%
  • Travel & lodging$11,3679%
  • Food & beverage$16,96714%
  • Education$6351%

General payments by program year

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22
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24
25

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

$122,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 22 rheumatology providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,019,544
Medicare patients
363
Services billed
77,659

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) PenAdalimumab68$538,960
EnbrelEtanercept26$191,194
Enbrel MiniEtanercept23$177,350
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept12$99,652
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab13$60,479
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate469$22,086
Mycophenolate Mofetil32$7,883
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium319$7,281
Methylprednisolone273$7,177
Leflunomide55$4,349
Prednisone578$4,149
Colchicine56$3,804
Ibandronate Sodium78$2,319
Allopurinol141$1,493
Alendronate Sodium128$1,483

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$7,718$191,19426 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$24$3,80456 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 22 rheumatology providers in Rhode Island.

Other rheumatology in Cranston

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Where these figures come from

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