Lakshmikanth Katragadda, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Huntsville, ALNPI 1336303940
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,477 of the $11,573 with a category attached, or 81.9%. It is spread thinly across 60 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 457 payments — averaging $25.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Sanofi$744
- Pfizer$598
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$597
- Novartis$512
- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.$474
- plus $7K from 54 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $14,328 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.
- Beigene, Ltd.$177K
- Beone Medicines USA, Inc.$20K
- Beigene USA, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,36512%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1201%
- Food & beverage$9,47782%
- Education$1782%
- Other$4324%
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
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
$11,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 177 hematology & oncology providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KisqaliRibociclib Succinate | 43 | $658,538 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 45 | $578,814 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 20 | $361,592 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 22 | $292,144 |
| TasignaNilotinib Hcl | 14 | $264,123 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 14 | $211,365 |
| AlecensaAlectinib Hcl | 11 | $199,459 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 11 | $193,331 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 12 | $186,437 |
| EliquisApixaban | 202 | $162,761 |
| Lenalidomide | 13 | $153,006 |
| NinlaroIxazomib Citrate | 11 | $145,565 |
| Udenyca AutoinjectorPegfilgrastim-Cbqv | 36 | $143,609 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 13 | $97,483 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 81 | $56,160 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisKisqali, Tasigna | $512 | $922,66157 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $356 | $361,59220 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $598 | $349,197214 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $133 | $292,14422 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio | $23 | $211,36514 claims |
| Genentech USA, Inc.Alecensa | $68 | $199,45911 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $267 | $193,33111 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Ninlaro | $98 | $145,56511 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $1,946 | $97,48313 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $270 | $56,16081 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 60th percentile of 177 hematology & oncology providers in Alabama.
Other hematology & oncology in Huntsville
- Ehab ElbaheshHuntsville$47K
- Ali HachemHuntsville$20K
- Daniel SchreederHuntsville$16K
- Jorge Diaz CastroHuntsville$14K
- Amitkumar MehtaBirmingham$683K
- Pankit VachhaniBirmingham$545K
- Luciano CostaBirmingham$409K
- Khaleel AshrafBirmingham$379K
- Michael BirrerBirmingham$302K
- Rudolph NavariBirmingham$254K
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.