Jonah Licht, MD
Nephrology · Providence, RINPI 1134192891
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (41.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 59.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,158 and has fallen 68.6% since, to $364 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $74.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$401
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$375
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$104
- Cook Medical LLC$14
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$14
- plus $6 from 1 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $10,998 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.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$183K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$112K
- BD$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$37517%
- Travel & lodging$92041%
- Food & beverage$93942%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 16 | $1,326 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $401 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $375 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $6 |
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.
- Ellipsys$883
- COVERA$147
- JYNARQUE$104
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$102
How this compares
$2,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 45 nephrology providers in Rhode Island.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 77 | $160 |
| Cephalexin | 24 | $154 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Providence
- Keith BartolomeiProvidence$15K
- Elkin EstradaProvidence$11K
- Katherine DavorenProvidence$9K
- Jeffrey ClementProvidence$7K
- Devyani SivakumarProvidence$5K
- Muhammad LiaqatProvidence$4K
- Amol MittalProvidence$3K
- Marc WeinbergProvidence$3K
- Alay NanavatiProvidence$537
- Shijo BenjaminProvidence$491
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.