Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Steve Rucker

Nephrology Lake Success, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1083712806 CMS profile 139633

4 Ohio Drive, Suite 200, Lake Success, NY 11042

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General payments

$67,043

1,139 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Steve Rucker of Lake Success, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $67,043 across 1,139 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 Nephrology 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 $21,744 145
2024 General $2,428 128
2023 General $3,177 108
2022 General $7,149 169
2021 General $10,292 180
2020 General $8,491 127
2019 General $13,762 282

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Steve Rucker
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Steve Rucker were reported at $21,744. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Steve Rucker Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $13,762 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $8,491 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $10,292 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $7,149 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $3,177 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $2,428 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $21,744 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18,067 47 payments
  2. Relypsa, Inc. $18,020 60 payments
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $11,822 135 payments
  4. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $2,367 184 payments
  5. Lilly USA, LLC $2,122 16 payments
  6. Amgen Inc. $1,389 69 payments
  7. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $1,348 72 payments
  8. Novo Nordisk Inc $1,208 79 payments
  9. Abbott Laboratories $877 10 payments
  10. AbbVie, Inc. $859 48 payments
  11. Other $8,964 419 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $36,745 31 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $21,518 951 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $3,600 1 payment
  4. Travel and Lodging $3,361 10 payments
  5. Education $1,819 146 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JARDIANCE Diabetes $17,256 23 payments
  2. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $14,610 38 payments
  3. FARXIGA $10,482 77 payments
  4. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $3,380 20 payments
  5. JARDIANCE Diabetes $1,942 7 payments
  6. RAYALDEE $1,694 143 payments
  7. JYNARQUE $1,043 50 payments
  8. LOKELMA $973 44 payments
  9. JARDIANCE Diabetes $793 23 payments
  10. Ozempic $789 45 payments
  11. Other $17,345 870 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 140 drugs

Part D claims

7,090

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$1,148,916

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

22.2%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jynarque Tolvaptan Brand 13 $251,027
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 162 $193,275
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 80 $86,440
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 59 $85,285
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 50 $65,185
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 61 $59,466
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 56 $53,234
Rayaldee Calcifediol Brand 20 $36,952
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 22 $29,273
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 15 $28,847

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 140 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 43 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$703,104

Of which drugs: $20,211

Medicare patients

1,621

Average age 77

Services billed

8,059

738 women, 883 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 53%
Ischemic heart disease 48%
Chronic kidney disease 41%
Diabetes 39%
Atrial fibrillation 27%
Heart failure 25%
Osteoporosis 24%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90653 Office 120 120 $9,737
Pcv20 vaccine im 90677 Office 24 24 $6,936

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 48 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
FARXIGA
$200 162 —
JYNARQUE
$162 13 —
TZIELD
$109 — —
LOKELMA
$97 16 —
RAYALDEE
$88 20 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,139 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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