Prashant Desai, MD
Radiation Oncology · The Villages, FLNPI 1023337722
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $28.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$603
- Novartis$226
- Zimmer Biomet$148
- AstraZeneca$140
- Merck$127
- Bayer$101
- plus $703 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$50024%
- Food & beverage$1,52374%
- Education$241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 6 | $603 |
| Novartis | 14 | $226 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $148 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $140 |
| Merck | 7 | $127 |
| Bayer | 5 | $101 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $99 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $75 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Pharmaand GmbH | 1 | $29 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Immunocore Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $25 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $20 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals 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.
How this compares
$2,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 465 radiation oncology providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dexamethasone | 25 | $102 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $27 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other radiation oncology in The Villages
- Charles KunosMiami$3.2M
- Rupesh KotechaMiami$2M
- Alexander EngelmanTampa$1.1M
- John SylvesterLakewood Ranch$999K
- Kamran AhmedTampa$975K
- Michael ChuongMiami$868K
- Tithi BiswasGainesville$640K
- Daniel TrifilettiJacksonville$606K
- Marcus BredelMiami$578K
- Kathryn HitchcockGainesville$504K
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.