RxDoctor Payments Data

Sandhya Nagarakanti, MD

Infectious Disease · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1851510390

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Viiv Healthcare Company accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,375 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $101 in 2023. Among infectious disease clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$6,988in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 216 payments — averaging $32.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$4K
  • Gilead$785
  • Merck$322
  • Johnson & Johnson$318
  • La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$244
  • AbbVie$226
  • plus $842 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,68053%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$150%
  • Food & beverage$2,99343%
  • Education$2994%

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

$6,988 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 146 infectious disease providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,794
Medicare patients
313
Services billed
481

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala70$302,608
RukobiaFostemsavir Tromethamine14$123,472
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen12$54,468
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine12$39,955
Posaconazole20$19,951
Ceftazidime12$1,414
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim11$149
Azithromycin15$128

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
GileadBiktarvy, Genvoya$785$357,07682 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyRukobia, Juluca$4,251$163,42826 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 90th percentile of 146 infectious disease providers in Arizona.

Other infectious disease in Scottsdale

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