RxDoctor Payments Data

Kartik Sehgal, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Boston, MANPI 1699188573

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 48.5% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $7,202, 4.4 times the $1,650 reported in 2022.

$14,470in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $657.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$7K
  • Exelixis Inc.$6K
  • Merck$996
  • Gilead$183
$5,440,759in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 196 payments — averaging $27,759 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.

  • Merck$2.3M
  • Pfizer$1.8M
  • Seagen Inc.$1M
  • AbbVie$295K
  • Modernatx, Inc.$60K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6,30044%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,95034%
  • Travel & lodging$2,55618%
  • Food & beverage$6645%

General payments by program year

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24

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Pfizer4$7,019
Exelixis Inc.10$6,272
Merck5$996
Gilead3$183

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

$14,470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 374 hematology & oncology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,077
Medicare patients
168
Services billed
508

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
LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate24$543,699
CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate12$271,527
RetevmoSelpercatinib22$270,789
MekinistTrametinib Dimethyl Sulfoxide18$222,589
TafinlarDabrafenib Mesylate20$209,055
Everolimus16$151,009
EliquisApixaban12$9,066
Levothyroxine Sodium52$655
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium14$652
Gabapentin12$316
Dexamethasone13$169
Prednisone20$134
Amlodipine Besylate11$117
Ondansetron Hcl12$116

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
Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx$6,272$271,52712 claims
PfizerEliquis$7,019$9,06612 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 70th percentile of 374 hematology & oncology providers in Massachusetts.

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