Who Paid My Doc
Robert Ettlinger
Rheumatology Tacoma, WA Medical Doctor
NPI 1740383744 CMS profile 33337
1901 South Cedar Street, 201 Cedar Medical Center, Tacoma, WA 98405
General payments
$231,757
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Robert Ettlinger of Tacoma, WA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $231,757 across 362 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.
General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $34 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $10,958 | 22 | |
| 2023 | General | $13,398 | 29 | |
| 2022 | General | $23,820 | 39 | |
| 2021 | General | $35,465 | 47 | |
| 2020 | General | $23,170 | 40 | |
| 2019 | General | $124,912 | 184 |
Beside peers
- Robert Ettlinger
- Rheumatology median
- Middle half of Rheumatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Ettlinger were reported at $34. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.
Show as a table
| Year | Robert Ettlinger | Rheumatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $124,912 | $744 | $153–$2,687 | $163 |
| 2020 | $23,170 | $462 | $98–$2,027 | $114 |
| 2021 | $35,465 | $531 | $101–$2,153 | $132 |
| 2022 | $23,820 | $627 | $125–$2,303 | $149 |
| 2023 | $13,398 | $741 | $145–$2,524 | $160 |
| 2024 | $10,958 | $830 | $166–$2,660 | $164 |
| 2025 | $34 | $903 | $171–$2,775 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
362 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
Other Rheumatology in Washington
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Rheumatology in Washington
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All Rheumatology
Everyone recorded under this specialty, nationwide.
Doctors in Washington
Every practitioner in the state with a reported payment.
How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.