Has Rauf Cheema, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,109 in general payments to Rauf Cheema, MD across 81 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Rauf Cheema, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Rauf Cheema, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Rauf Cheema, MD

Psychiatry · Winchester, VANPI 1811904535

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,109in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $13.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$578
AbbVie$320
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$137
Philips North America LLC$52
Indivior Inc.$22

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,109100%

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
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	57	$578
AbbVie(2 entities)	20	$320
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$137
Philips North America LLC	1	$52
Indivior Inc.	1	$22

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.

QELBREE$118

How this compares

$1,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 884 psychiatry providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$189,934

Medicare patients

110

Services billed

1,953

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
RexultiBrexpiprazole	12	$20,407
Duloxetine Hcl	144	$3,895
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	105	$3,526
Quetiapine Fumarate	215	$3,393
Aripiprazole	57	$2,995
Fluoxetine Hcl	46	$1,721
Lamotrigine	178	$1,708
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl	94	$1,443
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	32	$1,378
Olanzapine	50	$1,323
Divalproex Sodium	23	$1,098
Hydroxyzine Hcl	28	$1,020
Trazodone Hcl	125	$909
Oxcarbazepine	35	$888
Mirtazapine	81	$744

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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