RxDoctor Payments Data

Karam Al-Issa, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Indianapolis, INNPI 1720468259

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $46,963 of the $77,225 with a category attached, or 60.8%. 55 manufacturers reported payments, led by Seagen Inc. at 53.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $41,657 and has fallen 70.0% since, to $12,501 in 2025. Among hematology & oncology clinicians in IN 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.

$77,225in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 407 payments — averaging $189.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Seagen Inc.$41K
  • Pfizer$24K
  • Sanofi$3K
  • Amgen$853
  • Merck$697
  • Johnson & Johnson$666
  • plus $7K from 49 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$14,05818%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$46,96361%
  • Travel & lodging$4,0335%
  • Food & beverage$11,43715%
  • Education$7341%

General payments by program year

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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

$77,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 224 hematology & oncology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$143,057
Medicare patients
342
Services billed
2,219

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
RevlimidLenalidomide16$361,887
BrukinsaZanubrutinib25$325,429
NubeqaDarolutamide20$255,343
Lenalidomide16$249,349
KisqaliRibociclib Succinate13$221,715
EliquisApixaban150$157,039
VenclextaVenetoclax11$104,185
XareltoRivaroxaban29$33,072
Aprepitant11$3,143
Anastrozole40$1,167
Prochlorperazine Maleate70$857
Hydroxyurea25$770
Acyclovir32$724
Letrozole31$551
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen17$521

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid$498$361,88716 claims
Beigene USA, Inc.Brukinsa$14$325,42925 claims
NovartisKisqali$513$221,71513 claims
PfizerEliquis$24,288$157,039150 claims
AbbVieVenclexta$258$104,18511 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$666$33,07229 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 224 hematology & oncology providers in Indiana.

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