Herbert Baraf
Rheumatology · Wheaton, MDNPI 1063411494
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 529 payments — averaging $2667.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$344K
- Regeneron$228K
- Amgen$203K
- Novartis$142K
- Pfizer$136K
- Gilead$117K
- plus $240K from 19 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $6708.27 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.
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$131,75949%
- Speaking & faculty fees$68,85426%
- Travel & lodging$60,32722%
- Food & beverage$7,2553%
- Education$80%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 171 | $344,178 |
| Regeneron | 28 | $227,961 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 91 | $203,286 |
| Novartis | 12 | $141,629 |
| Pfizer | 34 | $136,347 |
| Gilead | 62 | $117,387 |
| Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB | 11 | $81,888 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 9 | $51,866 |
| Sobi, Inc | 47 | $48,295 |
| UCB GmbH | 4 | $13,301 |
| UCB, Inc. | 15 | $10,293 |
| GW Pharma Limited | 2 | $5,865 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 6 | $5,540 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $4,935 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $4,800 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $4,786 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $3,519 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 6 | $3,388 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $243 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $146 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $141 |
| Merck | 2 | $121 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
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
$1,410,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.
Other rheumatology in Wheaton
- Paul DemarcoWheaton$1.4M
- Alan MatsumotoWheaton$720K
- Jeffrey PotterWheaton$477K
- Charles OshinskyWheaton$11K
- Steven KleinHagerstown$3.4M
- Thomas Grader BeckBaltimore$1.2M
- Michelle PetriBaltimore$1.1M
- Laura HummersBaltimore$1M
- Evan SiegelRockville$624K
- Donald ThomasGreenbelt$471K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.