Paul Ruberg
Physician Assistant · Fairfax, VANPI 1801438536
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 256 payments — averaging $30.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$831
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$765
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$733
- AbbVie$712
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$596
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,716100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $1,354 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 35 | $831 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 23 | $765 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $733 |
| AbbVie | 35 | $712 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 14 | $596 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $441 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 10 | $390 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 20 | $321 |
| Corium, LLC | 12 | $309 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $225 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 8 | $195 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $172 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 7 | $147 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Biogen | 2 | $40 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $23 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$7,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,376 physician assistant providers in Virginia.
Other physician assistant in Fairfax
- Andrea KellerFairfax$37K
- Joanne TowersFairfax$23K
- Adetokunbo Aderemi-IbitolaFairfax$15K
- John DalessandroSalem$160K
- Jalal AlghabraFredericksburg$119K
- Jamie GiovanelliVirginia Beach$118K
- John CarterStaunton$90K
- Melissa AlcoxNorfolk$73K
- Lindsay TomReston$71K
- Robert HigginsonRichmond$66K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.