RxDoctor Payments Data

Sandeep Rajan, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Nashville, TNNPI 1396852273

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $340,672 of the $464,885 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 51 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 37.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $169,593 and has fallen 82.3% since, to $30,024 in 2025. Among hematology & oncology clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$464,885in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 516 payments — averaging $900.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$173K
  • AstraZeneca$97K
  • Sanofi$79K
  • Bioverativ Therapeutics Inc.$60K
  • Shire North American Group Inc$24K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$14K
  • plus $18K from 45 others
$64,879in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $4325.26 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.

  • Bayer$24K
  • Sanofi$18K
  • Octapharma USA, Inc.$8K
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$8K
  • Amgen$7K
  • CSL Behring$170

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$53,38611%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$340,67273%
  • Travel & lodging$61,97813%
  • Food & beverage$8,8492%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$464,885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 251 hematology & oncology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$125,517
Medicare patients
242
Services billed
1,339

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BesremiRopeginterferon Alfa-2b-Njft17$273,229
PromactaEltrombopag Olamine12$132,677
EliquisApixaban71$57,131
XareltoRivaroxaban31$23,369
Hydroxyurea17$555
Potassium Chloride11$39

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
NovartisPromacta$91$132,67712 claims
PfizerEliquis$204$57,13171 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$95$23,36931 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 95th percentile of 251 hematology & oncology providers in Tennessee.

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