RxDoctor Payments Data

Kashmira Wankhedkar, MD

Rheumatology · Charlotte, NCNPI 1063761351

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,398in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 264 payments — averaging $20.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$567
  • Novartis$472
  • Lilly USA, LLC$440
  • AbbVie$408
  • UCB, Inc.$321
  • plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,27898%
  • Education$1202%

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

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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

$5,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$96,200
Medicare patients
109
Services billed
2,944

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept37$274,174
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab38$265,201
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept29$158,100
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate17$115,304
Humira PenAdalimumab14$95,362
RinvoqUpadacitinib12$74,185
OtrexupMethotrexate/Pf13$9,226
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate170$4,196
Mycophenolate Mofetil39$3,813
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium219$3,535
Leflunomide14$1,271
Azathioprine24$869
Prednisone109$394
Alendronate Sodium99$365
Allopurinol24$133

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
AbbVieRinvoq$408$74,18512 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 50th percentile of 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.

Other rheumatology in Charlotte

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