Kebede Begna, MD
Hematology · Rochester, MNNPI 1962411231
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,226 of the $6,226 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Novartis.
Across 3 payments — averaging $2075.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$6K
Across 14 payments — averaging $11,345 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.
- Immunogen, Inc.$86K
- AbbVie$56K
- Helsinn Healthcare SA$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,226100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 3 | $6,226 |
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.
- KYMRIAH$1,750
How this compares
$6,226 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 111 hematology providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| IclusigPonatinib Hcl | 23 | $486,441 |
| BosulifBosutinib | 18 | $240,619 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 11 | $177,366 |
| VenclextaVenetoclax | 29 | $86,818 |
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $6,260 |
| Hydroxyurea | 95 | $3,887 |
| Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified | 17 | $3,481 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 30 | $3,270 |
| Fluconazole | 11 | $679 |
| Allopurinol | 44 | $302 |
| Acyclovir | 22 | $278 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hematology in Rochester
- Shaji KumarRochester$452K
- Yi LinRochester$365K
- David DingliRochester$299K
- Morie GertzRochester$261K
- Grzegorz NowakowskiRochester$235K
- Sameer ParikhRochester$151K
- Lindsey RoekerRochester$106K
- Mark LitzowRochester$99K
- Angela DispenzieriRochester$87K
- Prashant KapoorRochester$71K
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.