Ernie Riffer, MD
Internal Medicine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1134284268
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,458 payments — averaging $2027.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$984K
- Novo Nordisk AS$576K
- Valneva Austria GmbH$349K
- AbbVie$243K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$209K
- Regeneron$162K
- plus $434K from 37 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $42,535 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.
- Valneva Austria GmbH$204K
- Eli Lilly$9K
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.
How this compares
$2,956,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Medicare billing
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 internal medicine in Phoenix
- Louise TaberPhoenix$8.5M
- Frank LovecchioPhoenix$945K
- Allison PerrinPhoenix$861K
- Nasser HajaigPhoenix$687K
- Richard TayrienPhoenix$299K
- Sanjay ShahPhoenix$288K
- Kelly KrohnPhoenix$262K
- Paul WaxPhoenix$243K
- Paul StanderPhoenix$222K
- Howard GrossmanPhoenix$131K
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.