Navin Kumar, MD
Gastroenterology · Munster, INNPI 1790901940
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 856 payments — averaging $14.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$248
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,05799%
- Education$1281%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 279 | $3,565 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 176 | $2,091 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 124 | $1,986 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 73 | $1,007 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 73 | $1,003 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 24 | $248 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $215 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $192 |
| Merck | 10 | $173 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $148 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 8 | $136 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $133 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $107 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 7 | $101 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $91 |
| Vivus LLC | 5 | $84 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 4 | $71 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $65 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $65 |
| Sandoz | 3 | $45 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $44 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $39 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Gilead | 1 | $25 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Capsovision, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ENDOCAPSULE RECORDER$121
- VISIGLIDE$121
How this compares
$12,185 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 20 | $248,483 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 76 | $76,174 |
| ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase | 20 | $75,042 |
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 22 | $73,573 |
| ViberziEluxadoline | 17 | $43,223 |
| Mesalamine | 27 | $11,658 |
| Sucralfate | 78 | $8,727 |
| Famotidine | 406 | $6,348 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 502 | $6,338 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 492 | $6,287 |
| SuflavePeg 3350/Sod Sulf,chlr/Pot/Mag | 51 | $6,273 |
| ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac | 36 | $6,184 |
| Ursodiol | 33 | $5,383 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 24 | $5,376 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 179 | $4,376 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess, Creon, Viberzi | $3,565 | $192,970115 claims |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep | $107 | $75,04220 claims |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Suflave, Sutab | $76 | $8,52465 claims |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq | $28 | $6,18436 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 80th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.
Other gastroenterology in Munster
- Anoop AppannagariMunster$120K
- Priti NuthakkiMunster$17K
- Gene ChangMunster$14K
- Michelle SrisuwananukornMunster$13K
- Monika FischerIndianapolis$2.8M
- Douglas RexIndianapolis$2.3M
- Pankaj PatelSouth Bend$2.3M
- David PoundIndianapolis$1.4M
- Naga ChalasaniIndianapolis$1.1M
- Sashidhar SagiWestfield$1.1M
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.