Has Balaji Nithianandam, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,945 in general payments to Balaji Nithianandam, MD across 10 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Balaji Nithianandam, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Balaji Nithianandam, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Balaji Nithianandam, MD

Emergency Medicine · Edgewood, KYNPI 1386022390

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,890 of the $2,945 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Baxter Healthcare accounts for 64.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,250, 5.6 times the $225 reported in 2019. Among emergency medicine clinicians in KY 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.

$2,945in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $294.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Baxter Healthcare$2K
Boston Scientific$291
AstraZeneca$256
Inari Medical, Inc.$198
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$120
Pfizer$105
plus $85 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,89064%
Food & beverage$1,05536%

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
Baxter Healthcare	2	$1,890
Boston Scientific	2	$291
AstraZeneca	2	$256
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$198
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$120
Pfizer	1	$105
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	1	$85

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

$2,945 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 717 emergency medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$83,100

Medicare patients

478

Services billed

757

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
Cephalexin	24	$187
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	34	$123
Naproxen	29	$104
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	17	$95
Doxycycline Hyclate	15	$93
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	17	$75
Prednisone	18	$43
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	16	$39
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Rachel HelplingEdgewood$983
Michael McClurgEdgewood$565
James MooreLexington$184K
Ryan StantonLexington$83K
Paul HesterDanville$57K
Sameer DesaiLexington$24K
Christopher ReynoldsPikeville$22K
Adam RossLouisville$22K
Andrew WilsonLexington$16K

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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.

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