Asheesh Lal, MD
Hematology & Oncology · West Columbia, SCNPI 1841223047
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 83 payments — averaging $68.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dova Pharmaceuticals$3K
- Bayer$900
- Novartis$418
- Bristol Myers Squibb$175
- Gilead$169
- Pfizer$114
- plus $853 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$90016%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,04054%
- Food & beverage$1,62629%
- Education$1042%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $3,040 |
| Bayer | 1 | $900 |
| Novartis | 18 | $418 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 9 | $175 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 8 | $169 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $114 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $110 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $105 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $85 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $76 |
| GSK | 3 | $61 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $35 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $28 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Legend Biotech USA Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 166 hematology & oncology providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 122 | $1,669,318 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 99 | $1,626,100 |
| Lenalidomide | 57 | $807,907 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 39 | $677,096 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 31 | $515,528 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 33 | $506,734 |
| LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate | 21 | $504,759 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 90 | $455,839 |
| BrukinsaZanubrutinib | 30 | $443,667 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 24 | $434,682 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 27 | $398,970 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 24 | $247,651 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 16 | $235,862 |
| YonsaAbiraterone Acet,submicronized | 22 | $219,656 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 14 | $181,666 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid, Thalomid | $175 | $1,685,618112 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $76 | $1,669,318122 claims |
| AstraZenecaTagrisso, Calquence | $35 | $1,022,26264 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada, Xarelto | $85 | $421,53550 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $418 | $247,65124 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $900 | $181,66614 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta | $110 | $91,73513 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $114 | $61,30873 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 40th percentile of 166 hematology & oncology providers in South Carolina.
Other hematology & oncology in West Columbia
- Steven MaddenWest Columbia$335K
- Amanda BilkoWest Columbia$22K
- Ki ChungSpartanburg$4.7M
- Stephen DyarGreenville$4.5M
- Suzanne FanningGreenville$3.9M
- Vikas DemblaSpartanburg$3.2M
- Robert StuartCharleston$2.9M
- Tondre BuckSpartanburg$2.1M
- William EdenfieldGreenville$1.7M
- Bhumika PatelGreenville$1.5M
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.