RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Rubin, MD

Rheumatology · Houston, TXNPI 1942293758

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,475in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $18.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • GSK$402
  • Johnson & Johnson$276
  • Amgen$247
  • Pfizer$193
  • Novartis$101
  • plus $212 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,32094%
  • Education$1556%

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

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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

$2,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$767,353
Medicare patients
302
Services billed
44,075

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab63$877,901
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept55$481,676
Enbrel MiniEtanercept23$269,157
RinvoqUpadacitinib23$238,276
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab30$237,620
BenlystaBelimumab26$95,694
OtezlaApremilast20$94,875
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab11$78,355
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab11$55,198
Mycophenolate Mofetil94$9,657
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium272$7,563
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate154$7,411
Cevimeline Hcl40$6,769
Prednisone368$4,794
Celecoxib95$3,463

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
AbbVieRinvoq, Humira(Cf)$1,044$475,89653 claims
GSKBenlysta$402$95,69426 claims
AmgenOtezla$247$94,87520 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 35th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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