Shridhar Bhat, MD
Nephrology · Rich, VANPI 1134158991
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 83 payments — averaging $39.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$616
- AbbVie$511
- AstraZeneca$265
- GSK$216
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$151
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$125
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,10995%
- Education$1485%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 14 | $616 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $511 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $265 |
| GSK | 2 | $216 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $119 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $95 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Biogen | 2 | $76 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $73 |
| Indivior Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $37 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition 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
$3,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 570 | $87,467 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 68 | $53,144 |
| SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 83 | $47,039 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 59 | $45,415 |
| AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf | 116 | $35,652 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 32 | $32,144 |
| ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf | 88 | $25,740 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 20 | $19,731 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 26 | $18,102 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 12 | $17,323 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 26 | $17,054 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 19 | $16,564 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 60 | $14,480 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 26 | $14,390 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 21 | $12,305 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Arexvy, Shingrix | $216 | $89,765209 claims |
| Indivior Inc.Suboxone | $73 | $47,03983 claims |
| PfizerAbrysvo | $119 | $35,652116 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $95 | $32,14432 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $265 | $31,04379 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $118 | $19,73120 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $35 | $18,10226 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $96 | $17,32312 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $511 | $12,30521 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $45 | $10,82515 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $616 | $10,19916 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 70th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.
Other nephrology in Rich
- Olayiwola AyodejiHampton$7M
- Kiranjit DhillonNorfolk$4.5M
- Gaurav GuptaRichmond$2.1M
- Csaba KovesdySalem$1.5M
- Ramon MendezWoodbridge$1.5M
- Varagur Bala SubramanianAlexandria$957K
- Ahmadshah MirkhelFairfax$902K
- Renuka SothinathanFairfax$617K
- Steven LewinskiChesapeake$512K
- Devasmita DevSalem$494K
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.