RxDoctor Payments Data

Leili Parsa, MD

Rheumatology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1710111794

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,535in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $22.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$723
  • AbbVie$690
  • Amgen$448
  • UCB, Inc.$272
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$157
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$145
  • plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1003%
  • Food & beverage$3,42197%
  • Education$140%

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.

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

$3,535 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$352,821
Medicare patients
263
Services billed
29,801

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) PenAdalimumab52$585,094
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate20$113,658
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol13$95,627
EnbrelEtanercept11$80,741
ProliaDenosumab11$19,578
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate206$10,961
Mycophenolate Mofetil22$9,544
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium98$4,519
Methylprednisolone94$2,729
Leflunomide19$2,370
Colchicine15$1,707
Pregabalin42$1,397
Prednisone135$1,351
Duloxetine Hcl24$1,044
Allopurinol46$975

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$448$100,32022 claims
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$272$95,62713 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 50th percentile of 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.

Other rheumatology in Baltimore

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