RxDoctor Payments Data

Petros Efthimiou, MD

Rheumatology · New York, NYNPI 1942246939

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $629,090 of the $791,380 with a category attached, or 79.5%. It is spread thinly across 39 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.8%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $184,199 and has fallen 79.1% since, to $38,420 in 2025. Among rheumatology clinicians in NY 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.

$791,380in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,239 payments — averaging $638.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$149K
  • Sanofi$114K
  • Amgen$103K
  • Novartis$102K
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$70K
  • AbbVie$52K
  • plus $200K from 33 others
$2,314in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $1157.09 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.

  • Novartis$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$73,8459%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$629,09079%
  • Travel & lodging$55,2787%
  • Food & beverage$32,5844%
  • Education$5830%

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

$791,380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 541 rheumatology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,526
Medicare patients
113
Services billed
987

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
IlarisCanakinumab/Pf11$605,131
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab19$176,838
Humira PenAdalimumab14$97,713
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate130$5,456
Febuxostat17$2,736
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium78$1,551
Colchicine21$1,203
Allopurinol35$284
Alendronate Sodium25$218
Amitriptyline Hcl14$192
Methylprednisolone31$181
Gabapentin18$140
Prednisone17$120

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
NovartisIlaris$102,422$605,13111 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 95th percentile of 541 rheumatology providers in New York.

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