Sai Pingali, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1104089036
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $2064.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seagen Inc.$77K
- AbbVie$44K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$26K
- Genentech, Inc.$18K
- Gilead$17K
- Incyte Corporation$3K
- plus $1K from 22 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $25,850 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.
- Acrotech Biopharma Inc.$26K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,39076%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5007%
- Travel & lodging$1,9999%
- Food & beverage$2,0339%
- Education$310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seagen Inc. | 11 | $77,353 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $43,516 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $25,902 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 3 | $17,753 |
| Gilead | 20 | $17,125 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $2,819 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $258 |
| National Marrow Donor Program | 1 | $215 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $179 |
| Novartis | 6 | $127 |
| Amgen | 4 | $95 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $71 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 2 | $67 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| CTI Biopharma Corp. | 1 | $28 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $24 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Acrotech Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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
$185,849 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ScemblixAsciminib Hydrochloride | 13 | $963,525 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 30 | $551,163 |
| Lenalidomide | 20 | $350,460 |
| BrukinsaZanubrutinib | 22 | $314,509 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 16 | $244,804 |
| BosulifBosutinib | 15 | $156,922 |
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $7,578 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 105 | $5,752 |
| Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified | 20 | $4,300 |
| TrexallMethotrexate Sodium | 14 | $2,958 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 20 | $2,895 |
| Fluconazole | 35 | $1,101 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 49 | $413 |
| Dexamethasone | 21 | $270 |
| Hydrocortisone | 11 | $257 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisScemblix | $127 | $963,52513 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $25,902 | $551,16330 claims |
| Beigene USA, Inc.Brukinsa | $37 | $314,50922 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $2,819 | $244,80416 claims |
| PfizerBosulif, Eliquis | $179 | $164,50028 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 75th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
Other hematology & oncology in Houston
- Elias JabbourHouston$264.1M
- Luhua WangHouston$79.6M
- Courtney DinardoHouston$74M
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$59.4M
- William WierdaHouston$58.7M
- Koji SasakiHouston$39.2M
- Loretta NastoupilHouston$18.3M
- Christopher FlowersHouston$17.2M
- Philip ThompsonHouston$13.6M
- Naval DaverHouston$13.6M
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.