Ashwin Somasundaram
Medical Oncology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1356784763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,375 of the $1,833 with a category attached, or 75.0%. Taiho Oncology, Inc. accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,520 and has fallen 86.9% since, to $199 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $2,595.
Across 5 payments — averaging $366.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Taiho Oncology, Inc.$1K
- AstraZeneca$183
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$145
- Caris MPI, Inc.$130
Across 12 payments — averaging $57,884 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.
- Merck$538K
- Boston Scientific$75K
- AbbVie$71K
- Genentech, Inc.$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,37575%
- Food & beverage$39021%
- Education$684%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $1,375 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $183 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $145 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
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.
- Lonsurf$1,375
- ONIVYDE$145
- SOMATULINE DEPOT$145
- MI CANCER SEEK$130
How this compares
$1,833 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 238 medical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 11 | $19,149 |
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $14,279 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 18 | $10,065 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 64 | $832 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 68 | $824 |
| Dexamethasone | 64 | $656 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 29 | $377 |
| Mirtazapine | 39 | $323 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 27 | $323 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 17 | $280 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical oncology in Pittsburgh
- Adam BrufskyPittsburgh$1.3M
- John KirkwoodPittsburgh$102K
- Antoinette WozniakPittsburgh$50K
- Dulabh MongaPittsburgh$44K
- Priya RastogiPittsburgh$27K
- Carl JunePhiladelphia$9M
- Sramila AithalBensalem$682K
- Shayma KazmiPhiladelphia$619K
- Deric SaviorWynnewood$343K
- Marcia BrosePhiladelphia$260K
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.