Rachana Marathi, MD
Hospitalist · Terrytown, LANPI 1073800819
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,573 of the $1,852 with a category attached, or 84.9%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $937 and has fallen 80.5% since, to $183 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in LA 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 68 payments — averaging $27.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$374
- Amgen$366
- Johnson & Johnson$282
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$237
- AstraZeneca$193
- Pfizer$104
- plus $296 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,57385%
- Education$27915%
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 | 16 | $374 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $366 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $282 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 7 | $237 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $193 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $104 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $73 |
| Novartis | 2 | $47 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $32 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
$1,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 301 hospitalist providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 64 | $577,312 |
| RinvoqUpadacitinib | 25 | $192,237 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 26 | $180,536 |
| Actemra ActpenTocilizumab | 21 | $91,553 |
| EnbrelEtanercept | 12 | $84,328 |
| XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate | 12 | $61,384 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 11 | $59,806 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 44 | $14,114 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 114 | $4,722 |
| Azathioprine | 25 | $2,698 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 78 | $2,584 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 45 | $2,315 |
| Leflunomide | 21 | $1,481 |
| Prednisone | 61 | $505 |
| Sulfasalazine | 11 | $310 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRinvoq | $374 | $192,23725 claims |
| AmgenEnbrel | $366 | $84,32812 claims |
| PfizerXeljanz | $104 | $61,38412 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 301 hospitalist providers in Louisiana.
Other hospitalist in Terrytown
- David MickeyBaton Rouge$6K
- Nikhil SharmaNew Orleans$5K
- Haroon MujahidBaton Rouge$4K
- Michael ConnerNew Orleans$3K
- Pouya MafiShreveport$3K
- Yanet Perez GarciaShreveport$2K
- Bipasha NathNew Orleans$2K
- Benjamin MoreheadMonroe$2K
- Philip PutnamNew Orleans$2K
- Robert CauseyBaton Rouge$2K
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.