Aaron Gerds, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1922254937
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 619 payments — averaging $4266.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Incyte Corporation$1.1M
- Bristol Myers Squibb$376K
- Genentech, Inc.$364K
- Eli Lilly$325K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$115K
- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.$110K
- plus $212K from 16 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $745.82 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$2K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$935
- Novartis$143
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$61,66460%
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,16436%
- Travel & lodging$1,8772%
- Food & beverage$2,6743%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Incyte Corporation | 456 | $1,139,227 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 36 | $376,270 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 12 | $363,905 |
| Eli Lilly | 5 | $325,030 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 11 | $114,750 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 43 | $109,860 |
| Novartis | 3 | $84,150 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $41,742 |
| GSK | 18 | $25,461 |
| Gilead | 4 | $17,076 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $9,113 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $8,506 |
| CTI Biopharma Corp. | 1 | $6,629 |
| Morphosys, US Inc. | 2 | $4,759 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $4,178 |
| Merck | 3 | $3,365 |
| Geron Corporation | 2 | $3,039 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $2,363 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $575 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $534 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $335 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
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
$2,640,962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 450 hematology & oncology providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 272 | $4,823,855 |
| OjjaaraMomelotinib Dihydrochloride | 154 | $4,156,484 |
| AyvakitAvapritinib | 23 | $838,919 |
| BesremiRopeginterferon Alfa-2b-Njft | 25 | $373,589 |
| VonjoPacritinib Citrate | 13 | $326,315 |
| PegasysPeginterferon Alfa-2a | 13 | $16,159 |
| Danazol | 12 | $4,291 |
| Hydroxyurea | 109 | $4,155 |
| Acyclovir | 27 | $682 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $1,139,227 | $4,823,855272 claims |
| GSKOjjaara | $25,461 | $4,156,484154 claims |
| Pharmaessentia USA CorporationBesremi | $575 | $373,58925 claims |
| Genentech, Inc.Pegasys | $363,905 | $16,15913 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 450 hematology & oncology providers in Ohio.
Other hematology & oncology in Cleveland
- Afshin DowlatiCleveland$25.1M
- Brian HillCleveland$11.6M
- Christopher HoimesCleveland$7.5M
- Balazs HalmosCleveland$7M
- Dale ShepardCleveland$5.1M
- Paolo CaimiCleveland$4.2M
- Allison WinterCleveland$4.2M
- Nathan PennellCleveland$3.8M
- Ankit ManglaCleveland$3.3M
- David BajorCleveland$3.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.