RxDoctor Payments Data

Navya Kuchipudi, MD

Rheumatology · Columbia, SCNPI 1902340953

Payments from drug & device makers

$771in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $18.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$217
  • Johnson & Johnson$100
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$72
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$66
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$47
  • Lilly USA, LLC$45
  • plus $224 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$62381%
  • Education$14819%

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.

How this compares

$771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 123 rheumatology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$44,462
Medicare patients
185
Services billed
1,040

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab104$763,170
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab42$180,727
Cosentyx Sensoready PenSecukinumab14$101,373
KevzaraSarilumab21$87,341
ActemraTocilizumab17$65,523
BenlystaBelimumab13$61,537
TymlosAbaloparatide22$57,417
Teriparatide24$52,466
RasuvoMethotrexate/Pf11$9,595
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate153$5,288
Leflunomide54$3,605
Mycophenolate Mofetil35$3,475
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium119$2,348
Pregabalin33$1,436
Azathioprine20$1,109

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
SanofiKevzara$32$87,34121 claims
GSKBenlysta$15$61,53713 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$17$57,41722 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 20th percentile of 123 rheumatology providers in South Carolina.

Other rheumatology in Columbia

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