Saurabh Khurana, MD
Hospice and Palliative Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1851656292
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,096 of the $3,166 with a category attached, or 66.2%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 49.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,316, 7.6 times the $305 reported in 2022. Among hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in OH 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.
Across 48 payments — averaging $65.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$2K
- Abbott$273
- Novo Nordisk$248
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- Steris Corporation$142
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$137
- plus $665 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$74824%
- Food & beverage$2,09666%
- Education$32310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 14 | $1,559 |
| Abbott | 1 | $273 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $248 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $143 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $142 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $126 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 5 | $98 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $65 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $63 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $32 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $26 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
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
$3,166 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 88 hospice and palliative medicine 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.
Other hospice and palliative medicine in Columbus
- Gregory SeidenstickerColumbus$7K
- Michael PattersonColumbus$7K
- Amit PatelColumbus$7K
- Joseph TuColumbus$5K
- David LaubliColumbus$678
- Jessica MerlinColumbus$550
- Gregg WeidnerColumbus$434
- Tommy PetrosColumbus$431
- Charles MillerColumbus$213
- Kavita ShahColumbus$203
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.