Janani Rangaswami
Nephrology · Washington, DCNPI 1275748626
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $92,837 of the $152,267 with a category attached, or 61.0%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH at 33.2% of the total. Among nephrology clinicians in DC 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.
Across 107 payments — averaging $1423.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$51K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$31K
- Lilly USA, LLC$25K
- Bayer$18K
- Eli Lilly$9K
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- plus $11K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$92,83761%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,56222%
- Travel & lodging$24,63516%
- Food & beverage$1,2281%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 22 | $50,558 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 21 | $31,272 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $25,173 |
| Bayer | 13 | $18,368 |
| Eli Lilly | 8 | $9,315 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $6,176 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $4,716 |
| Abbott | 6 | $4,490 |
| Rockwell Medical, Inc. | 1 | $2,100 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
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.
- JARDIANCE$27,637
- Kerendia$18,057
- CardioMEMS HF System$4,490
- TRIFERIC$2,100
How this compares
$152,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 62 nephrology providers in District of Columbia.
Other nephrology in Washington
- Ashte CollinsWashington$1M
- Bruce LeslieWashington$217K
- Robert RubinWashington$119K
- Ehsan Nobakht HaghighiWashington$50K
- Christopher WilcoxWashington$41K
- Michael LipkowitzWashington$21K
- Dominic RajWashington$19K
- Cosette JamiesonWashington$13K
- Elwin BustosWashington$9K
- Antonina KolesnikovaWashington$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.