Tapasi Saha, MD
Nephrology · Kingsport, TNNPI 1932180098
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 35 payments — averaging $20.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$171
- Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$127
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$67
- Bayer$50
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$47
- AstraZeneca$45
- plus $199 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$704100%
- Education$20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $171 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 7 | $127 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Bayer | 3 | $50 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $45 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$705 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 229 nephrology providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 38 | $3,090 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 222 | $2,797 |
| Calcitriol | 141 | $2,535 |
| Furosemide | 293 | $2,102 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 12 | $1,327 |
| Losartan Potassium | 113 | $1,125 |
| Lisinopril | 117 | $720 |
| Chlorthalidone | 38 | $719 |
| Enalapril Maleate | 64 | $695 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 108 | $566 |
| Spironolactone | 64 | $457 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 15 | $426 |
| Allopurinol | 36 | $353 |
| Potassium Chloride | 38 | $334 |
| Torsemide | 17 | $285 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Kingsport
- Sharan KanakiriyaKingsport$12K
- Duc VuKingsport$7K
- Claude GalphinChattanooga$2M
- Kendra HendonKnoxville$1.1M
- Wael HusseinMemphis$912K
- Anna BurgnerNashville$788K
- Peter ReeseNashville$613K
- Jamie DwyerNashville$493K
- Ross NesbitKnoxville$452K
- Anthony LangoneNashville$377K
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.