Irwin Ruben, MD
Psychiatry · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1386660645
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $48 of the $75 with a category attached, or 63.6%. AbbVie accounts for 63.6% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34, 2.5 times the $14 reported in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for psychiatry clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $186.
Across 4 payments — averaging $18.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$48
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$27
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4864%
- Education$2736%
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
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 | 3 | $48 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $27 |
How this compares
$75 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 15 | $10,042 |
| Olanzapine | 26 | $2,317 |
| Aripiprazole | 46 | $2,311 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 56 | $1,651 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 49 | $1,444 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 59 | $1,309 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 62 | $1,011 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 17 | $756 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 15 | $582 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 32 | $529 |
| Risperidone | 12 | $421 |
| Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl | 15 | $352 |
| Mirtazapine | 25 | $259 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 18 | $233 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 11 | $232 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Beverly Hills
- Phillip BowmanBeverly Hills$773K
- Gustavo AlvaOrange$5.8M
- John KooSan Francisco$3M
- Jason KelloggIrvine$2.7M
- Jonathan MeyerSan Diego$2.3M
- Charles Tuan-Tu NguyenIrvine$2.1M
- Manoj WaikarLos Gatos$1.9M
- Gerald MaguireSan Juan Capistraco$1.8M
- Salima BrillmanSunnyvale$1.4M
- Bibi DasStanford$1.4M
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.