RxDoctor Payments Data

Faryal Baloch, MD

Rheumatology · Covington, GANPI 1174519847

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,747in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 321 payments — averaging $17.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Amgen$724
  • Johnson & Johnson$388
  • Pfizer$378
  • UCB, Inc.$282
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$218
  • plus $1K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,64398%
  • Education$1042%

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

$5,747 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 177 rheumatology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,562
Medicare patients
132
Services billed
859

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) PenAdalimumab133$987,434
RinvoqUpadacitinib95$594,459
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept60$435,770
Enbrel MiniEtanercept31$238,628
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab19$169,549
BenlystaBelimumab19$98,216
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate607$14,223
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium697$8,000
Leflunomide91$2,923
Gabapentin169$1,658
Prednisone561$1,551
Febuxostat25$1,222
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine46$838
Diclofenac Sodium65$603
Pregabalin39$551

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
AbbVieRinvoq, Humira(Cf)$2,403$764,008114 claims
GSKBenlysta$138$98,21619 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 45th percentile of 177 rheumatology providers in Georgia.

Other rheumatology in Covington

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