Rupa Koothirezhi, MD
Sleep Medicine · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1699207944
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.8% of the total across 148 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 39 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,377, more than ten times the $46 reported in 2020.
Across 148 payments — averaging $25.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$707
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$384
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$299
- Itamar Medical Inc$266
- AstraZeneca$229
- Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC$158
- plus $2K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,52995%
- Education$1955%
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.
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.
- XYWAV$368
- LUMRYZ$125
- WatchPATONE$117
- SUNOSI$116
How this compares
$3,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 25 sleep medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 12 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sleep medicine in Spartanburg
- Luis de la CruzSpartanburg$20K
- William HollinsColumbia$147K
- Rodney HarrisonColumbia$14K
- Terry GraingerColumbia$10K
- Stephen HandAnderson$8K
- Fahd ZarroufAnderson$5K
- Robert PuchalskiLugoff$4K
- Jigme SethiCharlestib$4K
- Meher FarooqCharleston$3K
- Anam SabzwariConway$2K
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.