Ajay Bhatnagar, MD
Radiation Oncology · Hershey, PANPI 1417161704
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.0%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 59 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among radiation oncology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 277 payments — averaging $150.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$25K
- Teleflex LLC$3K
- Palette Life Sciences, Inc.$3K
- Isoray, Inc$2K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$1K
- Viewray Technologies Inc$1K
- plus $6K from 54 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $21,525 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.
- Icad, Inc$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,10039%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,90017%
- Travel & lodging$1,9265%
- Food & beverage$16,63140%
- Education$170%
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.
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.
- Brachytherapy Source$1,755
- Model 200 TheraSeed Palladium-103 in ReadyLink$784
- TrueBeam$741
- Barrigel$616
- MRIdian$567
- MRIdian LINAC$382
- INTERSTIM$326
- UroLift$297
- ILLUCCIX$284
- GE Healthcare bk3000/bk5000 Ultrasound$268
- Koelis Trinity MRI/US Fusion$268
- AQUABEAM SYSTEM$266
- Bard BrachySource I-125 Implant Seeds In ReadyLink$259
- Xofigo$161
- Nubeqa$161
- REFLEXION MEDICAL RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM$148
- TRINITY$142
- OPDIVO$124
- Coloplast TFL Drive$121
- PROVENGE$117
How this compares
$41,574 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 339 radiation oncology providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 186 | $2,388 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 16 | $267 |
| Cephalexin | 58 | $258 |
| Finasteride | 22 | $176 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 13 | $137 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other radiation oncology in Hershey
- Mitchell MachtayHershey$5K
- Chirag ShahPittsburgh$344K
- Neil TaunkPhiladelphia$203K
- Wenyin ShiPhiladelphia$119K
- Navesh SharmaYork$106K
- Zachary HornePittsburgh$56K
- Yvonne MoweryPittsburgh$55K
- Kevin NeadPhiladelphia$50K
- Adam DickerPhiladelphia$46K
- Tinatin ChabrashviliPhiladelphia$39K
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.