Paula Herring
Rheumatology · Newtown Square, PANPI 1982831087
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $903,075 of the $920,346 with a category attached, or 98.1%. Pfizer accounts for 65.4% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $253,714 and has fallen 93.0% since, to $17,679 in 2025. Among rheumatology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 87 payments — averaging $10,579 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$602K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$315K
- UCB SA$4K
Across 3 payments — averaging $90,601 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.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$272K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$903,07598%
- Travel & lodging$17,2712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 42 | $601,700 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 43 | $314,946 |
| UCB SA | 2 | $3,700 |
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.
- Sotyktu$31,394
How this compares
$920,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other rheumatology in Newtown Square
- Alan EpsteinPhiladelphia$1.2M
- Lawrence LeventhalHuntingdon Valley$1.1M
- Alan KivitzDuncansville$936K
- Rohit AggarwalPittsburgh$810K
- Frederick MurphyDuncansville$494K
- Peter MerkelRadnor$479K
- Martin BergmanRidley Park$458K
- Alexis Ogdie-BeattyPhiladelphia$433K
- Ellen FieldBethlehem$418K
- David BulbinDanville$379K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.