Ruth Covington, DO
Addiction Psychiatry · Plymouth Meeting, PANPI 1184781445
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 20 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 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $267 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $14 in 2025.
Across 20 payments — averaging $21.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$70
- AbbVie$70
- Johnson & Johnson$56
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$46
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$34
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$32
- plus $124 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$433100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $56 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $22 |
How this compares
Too few addiction psychiatry providers in Pennsylvaniato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 16 | $714 |
| Alprazolam | 55 | $304 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 60 | $281 |
| Olanzapine | 15 | $261 |
| Clonazepam | 40 | $222 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 16 | $205 |
| Lamotrigine | 22 | $155 |
| Lorazepam | 14 | $43 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 14 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other addiction psychiatry in Plymouth Meeting
- Daniel LanglebenPhiladelphia$24K
- Hector Colon RiveraPhiladelphia$23K
- Jaakko LappalainenPhiladelphia$5K
- Henry KranzlerPhiladelphia$3K
- Alexandra McLeanWayne$2K
- Barry NelsonSpring House$2K
- Arlin SilbermanUpland$981
- Timothy Peters StricklandNorristown$900
- Altaf KasmaniReading$475
- Peter GarrettPhiladelphia$339
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.