Jitendra Vasandani, MD
Rheumatology · Lubbock, TXNPI 1194707406
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,874 and has fallen 80.8% since, to $5,924 in 2025. Among rheumatology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 2,268 payments — averaging $35.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$19K
- Amgen$13K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$10K
- UCB, Inc.$10K
- Regeneron$5K
- AbbVie$5K
- plus $19K from 35 others
Across 1,268 payments — averaging $5023.16 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.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$2.3M
- AbbVie$1.5M
- GSK$885K
- Amgen$491K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$296K
- Eli Lilly$224K
- plus $628K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,10837%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,0004%
- Travel & lodging$6,0917%
- Food & beverage$41,79851%
- Education$3620%
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.
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
$81,358 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 75 | $565,739 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 56 | $367,905 |
| SimponiGolimumab | 46 | $282,605 |
| TremfyaGuselkumab | 15 | $245,616 |
| BenlystaBelimumab | 38 | $186,252 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 16 | $124,103 |
| OtezlaApremilast | 18 | $120,813 |
| OrenciaAbatacept | 17 | $96,164 |
| Humira(Cf)Adalimumab | 12 | $95,698 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 16 | $92,819 |
| Humira PenAdalimumab | 13 | $89,959 |
| Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol | 12 | $71,871 |
| Actemra ActpenTocilizumab | 16 | $56,904 |
| Teriparatide | 25 | $53,834 |
| TymlosAbaloparatide | 13 | $33,828 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonSimponi, Tremfya | $3,285 | $528,22161 claims |
| GSKBenlysta | $2,431 | $186,25238 claims |
| AmgenOtezla | $13,210 | $120,81318 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia | $10,270 | $96,16417 claims |
| AbbVieHumira(Cf) | $4,715 | $95,69812 claims |
| UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack) | $9,596 | $71,87112 claims |
| Alvogen IncTeriparatide | $17 | $53,83425 claims |
| Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos | $992 | $33,82813 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 90th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.
Other rheumatology in Lubbock
- John CushDallas$3.7M
- Sanjay ChabraEl Paso$3.3M
- Dhiman BasuColleyville$1.8M
- Frank WellborneNew Braunfels$1.4M
- Christopher ParkerWest Lake Hills$1.4M
- Pendleton WickershamSan Antonio$954K
- Henry TownsendPlano$738K
- Zoran KurepaDallas$483K
- Giovanni GeslaniDallas$415K
- Dianne PetroneDallas$401K
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.