Richard Ratner
Internal Medicine · Ridley Park, PANPI 1972522993
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,319 of the $2,649 with a category attached, or 87.6%. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,533 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $19 in 2023.
Across 157 payments — averaging $16.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$524
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$352
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$293
- Boehringer Ingelheim$207
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$151
- AbbVie$133
- plus $989 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$30011%
- Food & beverage$2,31988%
- Education$301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 38 | $524 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $352 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 20 | $293 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $207 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 12 | $151 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $133 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $131 |
| Merck | 7 | $110 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $106 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $74 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $67 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $63 |
| GSK | 4 | $62 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $21 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $12 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SOLIQUA 100/33$300
How this compares
$2,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Ridley Park
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Daniel RaderPhiladelphia$1.7M
- Mohammed KidwaiBala Cynwyd$894K
- Ronak BhimaniNorristown$623K
- David GoldmannPhiladelphia$525K
- Christopher StillDanville$442K
- Jeffrey FreidLower Gwynedd$425K
- Cheryl PegusSpring House$370K
- Eyob FeyssaPhiladelphia$328K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.