Ronald Rubenstein
Pediatric Allergy/Immunology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1144237025
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Vertex. That places this record below the midpoint for pediatric allergy/immunology clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $1,000.
Across 1 payment — averaging $34.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$35
Across 63 payments — averaging $9416.71 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Vertex$561K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$22K
- AbbVie$5K
- Boehringer Ingelheim France S.a.s.$3K
- Vivus LLC$940
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$861
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$35100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 1 | $35 |
How this compares
$35 in reported general payments places this provider in the 0th percentile of 22 pediatric allergy/immunology providers in Missouri.
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Other pediatric allergy/immunology in Saint Louis
- Gary GoodmanSaint Louis$54K
- Deepika PolineniSaint Louis$39K
- Ray DavisSaint Louis$14K
- William JohnsonSaint Louis$7K
- Lisa SuffianSaint Louis$5K
- Alan KnutsenSaint Louis$3K
- Rebekah BrowningSaint Louis$1K
- Caroline HornerSaint Louis$742
- Brooke PolkSaint Louis$711
- Alysa EllisSaint Louis$682
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.