RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert O'Brian, MD

Rheumatology · Eldersburg, MDNPI 1730140724

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,193in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $23.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$314
  • AbbVie$240
  • Johnson & Johnson$215
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$138
  • UCB, Inc.$90
  • Pfizer$48
  • plus $150 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,193100%

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.

How this compares

$1,193 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$788,569
Medicare patients
416
Services billed
31,751

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) PenAdalimumab50$443,948
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate42$294,010
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab20$166,596
RinvoqUpadacitinib16$154,492
SimponiGolimumab16$139,927
XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate11$67,183
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium258$11,963
Sulfasalazine235$5,934
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate54$3,495
Celecoxib56$2,647
Colchicine18$1,702
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine30$1,477
Etodolac22$1,356
Leflunomide19$1,240
Allopurinol97$1,238

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$240$154,49216 claims
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$215$139,92716 claims
PfizerXeljanz$48$67,18311 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 173 rheumatology providers in Maryland.

Other rheumatology in Eldersburg

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