Anita Bhalla, MD
Infectious Disease · Lakewood, OHNPI 1013983790
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 35 payments — averaging $26.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$472
- Amgen$111
- Shionogi Inc$86
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$77
- AstraZeneca$75
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$55
- plus $48 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$91199%
- Education$111%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 20 | $472 |
| Amgen | 1 | $111 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $86 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $77 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $75 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $22 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- KRYSTEXXA$111
How this compares
$922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 308 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 30 | $7,235 |
| Meropenem | 27 | $3,952 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 17 | $1,499 |
| Ampicillin-SulbactamAmpicillin Sod/Sulbactam Sod | 12 | $660 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 28 | $343 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 20 | $233 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Lakewood
- Robert SalataCleveland$2.8M
- Carl FichtenbaumCincinnati$1.6M
- Curtis DonskeyCleveland$1.6M
- Moises Huaman JooCincinnati$1.2M
- Robin JumpCleveland$1.2M
- Grace McComseyCleveland$1M
- Robert BonomoCleveland$1M
- Ian BairdColumbus$810K
- Thomas HerchlineDayton$789K
- John CafardiCincinnati$719K
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.