Rajat Maheshwari, MD
Nephrology · Cuyahoga Falls, OHNPI 1346479458
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 301 payments — averaging $22.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Bayer$557
- Amgen$550
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$524
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$502
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$461
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,49096%
- Education$2644%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 47 | $1,040 |
| Bayer | 27 | $557 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 25 | $550 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 18 | $524 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 15 | $502 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 26 | $461 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 19 | $434 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 10 | $358 |
| Novartis | 17 | $342 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 13 | $325 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 10 | $185 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $175 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 8 | $162 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 9 | $157 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $148 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $135 |
| GSK | 8 | $134 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 5 | $128 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $89 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $28 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Outset Medical Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$6,754 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 235 | $243,191 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 189 | $217,459 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 83 | $119,796 |
| Tolvaptan | 12 | $52,180 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 23 | $50,139 |
| VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex | 17 | $28,565 |
| AuryxiaFerric Citrate | 20 | $25,924 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 105 | $22,625 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 103 | $20,109 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 98 | $11,968 |
| Calcium Acetate | 84 | $7,489 |
| Eplerenone | 48 | $4,293 |
| Torsemide | 158 | $3,468 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 130 | $2,263 |
| Losartan Potassium | 188 | $1,781 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma | $1,040 | $293,329258 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $148 | $217,459189 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $557 | $119,79683 claims |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.Tolvaptan | $25 | $52,18012 claims |
| Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia | $162 | $25,92420 claims |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan | $51 | $62914 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 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.
Other nephrology in Cuyahoga Falls
- Isabelle AyoubColumbus$1.6M
- Andrew LazarBeachwood$806K
- Samir ParikhColumbus$699K
- Brad RovinColumbus$625K
- Lance DworkinToledo$601K
- Mohamed SekkarieToledo$524K
- Kevin SchroederColumbus$518K
- Prabir Roy ChaudhuryCincinnati$483K
- Amit GovilCincinnati$444K
- Sankar NavaneethanCleveland$413K
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.