Rita Abu-Jaber
Critical Care Medicine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1386967545
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 32 payments — averaging $24.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$196
- 180 Medical, Inc.$111
- Boston Scientific$97
- Dentsply IH AB$71
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$49
- Teleflex LLC$47
- plus $203 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$772100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 8 | $196 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 4 | $111 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $97 |
| Dentsply IH AB | 3 | $71 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $43 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $16 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $9 |
How this compares
$772 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 231 critical care medicine providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 96 | $2,224 |
| Finasteride | 49 | $796 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other critical care medicine in Baltimore
- Edward BrittBaltimore$327K
- David Feller KopmanBaltimore$254K
- Renee DixonBaltimore$229K
- Elizabeth HuntBaltimore$182K
- David HagerBaltimore$149K
- Michael NotoBaltimore$65K
- Nirav ShahBaltimore$55K
- Nader HabashiBaltimore$54K
- Jason RoseBaltimore$33K
- Steven KellerBaltimore$31K
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.