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

Sunil Abraham

Rheumatology Asheville, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1801080890 CMS profile 1041176

4 Vanderbilt Park Dr Ste 200, Asheville, NC 28803

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General payments

$4,311

228 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, Sunil Abraham of Asheville, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,311 across 228 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 58th 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 $1,581 73
2024 General $1,003 58
2023 General $861 48
2022 General $694 39
2021 General $121 7
2020 General $21 1
2019 General $29 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sunil Abraham
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sunil Abraham were reported at $1,581. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Sunil Abraham Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $29 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $21 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $121 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $694 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $861 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $1,003 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $1,581 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $1,754 104 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $599 34 payments
  3. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $229 11 payments
  4. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $227 12 payments
  5. Genzyme Corporation $223 5 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $196 9 payments
  7. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $181 11 payments
  8. UCB, Inc. $156 6 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $134 7 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $93 4 payments
  11. Other $520 25 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,311 228 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TAVNEOS $494 17 payments
  2. Otezla $471 36 payments
  3. Enbrel Inflammation $456 30 payments
  4. RINVOQ $414 24 payments
  5. Enbrel Inflammation $270 16 payments
  6. ORENCIA $253 12 payments
  7. KEVZARA $246 6 payments
  8. EVENITY $210 14 payments
  9. TREMFYA $166 8 payments
  10. SAPHNELO $166 10 payments
  11. Other $1,811 96 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 · 40 drugs

Part D claims

2,380

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$2,327,559

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

32.3%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 79 $684,628
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 38 $277,638
Enbrel Mini Etanercept Brand 22 $177,522
Cosentyx Sensoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 24 $176,183
Taltz Autoinjector Ixekizumab Brand 17 $175,012
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens) Secukinumab Brand 21 $158,676
Otezla Apremilast Brand 20 $99,974
Xeljanz Xr Tofacitinib Citrate Brand 16 $93,982
Forteo Teriparatide Brand 17 $79,514
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 12 $79,170

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 40 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 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 91 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,339,257

Of which drugs: $1,188,665

Medicare patients

546

Average age 74

Services billed

120,188

420 women, 126 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
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 64%
Osteoporosis 59%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Depression 24%
Ischemic heart disease 19%
Diabetes 18%
COPD 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 63 37,900 $336,264
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 36 7,625 $258,096
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 110 9,420 $192,329
Injection, romosozumab-aqqg, 1 mg J3111 Office 25 16,380 $140,264
Injection, certolizumab pegol, 1 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0717 Office 16 21,600 $77,594
Injection, tocilizumab, 1 mg J3262 Office 18 15,960 $74,991
Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 Office 20 100 $448
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 25 101 $67
Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc J7050 Office 15 25 $13

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 22 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
Enbrel
  • Amgen Inc. $198
$198 60 —
Otezla
  • Amgen Inc. $80
$80 20 —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $75
$75 12 —
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $74
$74 45 —
ORENCIA
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $47
  • Celgene Corporation $24
$71 11 7,625

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

228 reported

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What this means

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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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