RxDoctor Payments Data

Elayne Garber, MD

Rheumatology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1508960840

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,210in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 352 payments — averaging $17.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$628
  • UCB, Inc.$474
  • Radius Health, Inc.$416
  • Pfizer$368
  • plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,03997%
  • Education$1713%

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.

How this compares

$6,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$848,423
Medicare patients
570
Services billed
22,079

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) PenAdalimumab47$378,937
SimponiGolimumab27$157,370
EnbrelEtanercept17$125,564
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate18$99,219
ProliaDenosumab42$70,688
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate370$11,318
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium245$6,653
Colchicine147$5,585
Leflunomide91$3,560
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine78$3,348
Gabapentin249$3,207
Sulfasalazine146$2,694
Duloxetine Hcl110$2,548
Celecoxib95$2,369
Prednisone262$2,333

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, Prolia$1,083$196,25259 claims
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$628$157,37027 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,475$74314 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 60th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

Other rheumatology in Los Angeles

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