Susan Ring
Internal Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1790708667
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 69 payments — averaging $30.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$691
- AstraZeneca$396
- Boehringer Ingelheim$200
- Amgen$155
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$129
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$105
- plus $399 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,074100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $691 |
| AstraZeneca | 18 | $396 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $200 |
| Amgen | 3 | $155 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $105 |
| Novartis | 5 | $76 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $34 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $32 |
| GSK | 2 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$2,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 18 | $308 |
| Finasteride | 12 | $164 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Virginia Beach
- Garfield SamuelsVirginia Beach$124K
- Anita KumarVirginia Beach$72K
- Leroy VaughanRichmond$20.8M
- James ClarkCharlottesville$16.2M
- Nabil AndrawisBurke$8.5M
- Mary BlumbergNorfolk$6.5M
- David RamstadSuffolk$5.8M
- Andrew PoklepovicRichmond$4.6M
- Nashwa GabraBurke$4.3M
- Michael DevittCharlottesville$3.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.