Has Pinkesh Bhuta, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $469 in general payments to Pinkesh Bhuta, MD across 9 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Pinkesh Bhuta, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Pinkesh Bhuta, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Pinkesh Bhuta, MD

Hospitalist · Atlanta, GANPI 1275621302

Payments from drug & device makers

$469in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $52.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$104
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$93
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$91
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$89
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$53
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$38

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$469100%

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
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$104
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$93
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$91
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$89
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$53
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$38

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.

ANDEXXA$104

How this compares

$469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 812 hospitalist providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$124,196

Medicare patients

545

Services billed

1,253

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
EliquisApixaban	38	$12,157
NeuproRotigotine	15	$4,202
Midodrine Hcl	16	$1,072
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	13	$1,034
Pantoprazole Sodium	48	$944
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	33	$816
Tramadol Hcl	60	$705
Oxycodone Hcl	30	$668
Levetiracetam	15	$660
Atorvastatin Calcium	42	$612
Tamsulosin Hcl	23	$445
Gabapentin	19	$432
Lorazepam	37	$391
Omeprazole	22	$373
Cefdinir	26	$349

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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