Poornima Saha, MD
Medical Oncology · Evanston, ILNPI 1699063644
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $14,900 of the $18,371 with a category attached, or 81.1%. Gilead accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 16 payments — averaging $1148.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$18K
- AstraZeneca$250
- Genentech USA, Inc.$100
- Merck$20
- Pfizer$12
Across 32 payments — averaging $4955.52 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.
- Merck$66K
- Pfizer$47K
- Eli Lilly$23K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$21K
- Novartis$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,70015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,90081%
- Grants$2501%
- Food & beverage$4783%
- Education$440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 12 | $17,990 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $250 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
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
$18,371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 144 medical oncology providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 500 | $9,578 |
| Letrozole | 142 | $3,089 |
| Exemestane | 13 | $2,255 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 28 | $491 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $90 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 14 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical oncology in Evanston
- Daniel ShevrinEvanston$17K
- Bruce BrocksteinEvanston$16K
- Javed ImamEvanston$4K
- Robert MarshEvanston$4K
- Ruta RaoChicago$328K
- Sunandana ChandraChicago$292K
- William GradisharChicago$289K
- Timothy KuzelOrland Park$265K
- Devalingam MahalingamChicago$252K
- Mary FidlerChicago$241K
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.