Satish Kumar, MD
Nephrology · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1760451686
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 7 payments — averaging $54.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vantive US Healthcare LLC$149
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$99
- Nxstage Medical, Inc.$81
- Baxter Healthcare$44
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$7
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$27472%
- Education$10628%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vantive US Healthcare LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $44 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $7 |
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.
- Renal - PD$149
How this compares
$380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 106 nephrology providers in Oklahoma.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 48 | $54,615 |
| VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide | 12 | $41,753 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 23 | $24,507 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 27 | $4,561 |
| Calcium Acetate | 24 | $1,953 |
| Allopurinol | 87 | $888 |
| Furosemide | 71 | $543 |
| Fludrocortisone Acetate | 14 | $445 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 65 | $278 |
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $243 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 16 | $242 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $241 |
| Carvedilol | 26 | $217 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $113 |
| Clonidine Hcl | 14 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Oklahoma City
- Chris SholerOklahoma City$193K
- Celeste BoeckmanOklahoma City$90K
- Joseph GhataOklahoma City$45K
- Jose-Marie El-AmmOklahoma City$45K
- Benjamin CowleyOklahoma City$36K
- Pankaj BalujaOklahoma City$30K
- Brad CarterOklahoma City$13K
- Laura RankinOklahoma City$11K
- Gary BondOklahoma City$9K
- Sudhir KhannaOklahoma City$7K
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.