Rafael Liporaci Lucena
Internal Medicine · Pawtucket, RINPI 1366715633
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 247 payments — averaging $17.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$742
- Boehringer Ingelheim$491
- Johnson & Johnson$395
- AstraZeneca$333
- GSK$307
- Novo Nordisk$290
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,246100%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 54 | $742 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 21 | $491 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 28 | $395 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $333 |
| GSK | 17 | $307 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $290 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $243 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $239 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 10 | $196 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $133 |
| Abbott | 6 | $130 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $128 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $97 |
| Novartis | 5 | $90 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $78 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Merck | 4 | $51 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $42 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $26 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Morphosys, US Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 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.
- COLOGUARD$120
How this compares
$4,251 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.
Other internal medicine in Pawtucket
- Jeffrey BaronPawtucket$19K
- Omeed SaniPawtucket$16K
- Muhammad EhtishamPawtucket$10K
- Amber GulPawtucket$6K
- David FriedEast Greenwich$37.2M
- Gregory AllenCranston$12.2M
- Kathleen GordonJohnston$1.1M
- William BeliveauJohnson$962K
- Scott WilsonCumberland$907K
- Aaron SamuelsProvidence$751K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.