RxDoctor Payments Data

Alfred Vargas, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Columbus, OHNPI 1144406687

Payments from drug & device makers

$795in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $28.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$162
  • Eisai Inc.$111
  • Novartis$95
  • Incyte Corporation$87
  • AstraZeneca$76
  • AbbVie$75
  • plus $189 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$46058%
  • Education$33542%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

How this compares

$795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 450 hematology & oncology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,594
Medicare patients
284
Services billed
669

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
IbrancePalbociclib23$365,419
NubeqaDarolutamide13$182,110
TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate12$179,457
Lenalidomide12$160,721
Abiraterone Acetate46$118,700
KisqaliRibociclib Succinate14$111,646
EliquisApixaban47$33,262
XareltoRivaroxaban13$10,596
Exemestane16$1,826
Anastrozole75$793
Ondansetron Hcl21$750
Oxycodone Hcl32$294
Hydroxyurea19$288
Prochlorperazine Maleate27$288
Dexamethasone17$257

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerIbrance, Eliquis$42$398,68170 claims
AstraZenecaTagrisso$76$179,45712 claims
NovartisKisqali$95$111,64614 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 25th percentile of 450 hematology & oncology providers in Ohio.

Other hematology & oncology in Columbus

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