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Industry payments to physicians · Rhode Island · 2024

Rhode Island

In Rhode Island, drug and device makers reported $7M in general payments to 3,031 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,219 each — plus $26M tied to research and $207,981 in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$7M
general payments
3,031
covered recipients paid
$2,219
mean per physician

Top specialties in Rhode Island

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $767,821
Internal Medicine $638,618
Psychiatry $605,751
Gastroenterology $401,934
Psychiatric/Mental Health $234,411
Family Medicine $227,171
Physician Assistant $224,606
Allergy $194,038
Neurology $186,714
Optometrist $175,423
Allergy & Immunology $166,082
Interventional Cardiology $153,814

Highest-paid physicians in Rhode Island

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

William Beliveau Internal Medicine · Johnson · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $459,273
Richard Miller Psychiatry · Cranston · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $224,266
John Zwetchkenbaum Allergy · Providence · top payer: Cipla USA Inc. $193,327
Robert Marchand Orthopaedic Surgery · Wakefield · top payer: Stryker Corporation $191,646
Alan Daniels Orthopaedic Surgery · East Providence · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $184,999
James Greer Psychiatry · Providence · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $178,460
Russell Settipane Allergy & Immunology · Middletown · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $162,931
Samantha Shawn Marsh Psychiatric/Mental Health · Westerly · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $162,567
Robert Bierwirth Gastroenterology · Cranston · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $129,131
Arnold-Peter Weiss Hand Surgery · Providence · top payer: Anika Therapeutics, Inc. $118,837
Sarah Beatrice Gerontology · East Greenwich · top payer: Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $113,907
Jennifer Geremia Physician Assistant · Cranston · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $108,147
David Caldarella Primary Podiatric Medicine · Warwick · top payer: Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC $106,291
Gina La Prova Family Medicine · Cumberland · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $104,537
Paul Akerman Gastroenterology · Providence · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $103,122
Warren Ong Psychiatry · Warwick · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $98,532
Michael Bradley Orthopaedic Surgery · Wakefield · top payer: FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc $97,695
Andrew Rosenzweig Geriatric Psychiatry · Providence · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $90,949
Stephen Salloway Neurology · Providence · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $90,047
Peter Soukas Interventional Cardiology · Providence · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $89,396
Christopher Digiovanni Foot and Ankle Surgery · Providence · top payer: Extremity Medical $85,642
Kriti Bhagat Optometrist · Providence · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $72,355
Thomas Sepe Gastroenterology · Providence · top payer: Gilead Sciences, Inc. $70,781
Mark Zimmerman Psychiatry · Cranston · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $67,776
Wilfredo Giordano-Perez Family Medicine · Johnston · top payer: Gilead Sciences, Inc. $66,237

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Rhode Island — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.