Usha Perepu
Hematology & Oncology · Iowa City, IANPI 1497060776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,474 of the $70,197 with a category attached, or 63.4%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 56.7% of the total. Among hematology & oncology clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 61 payments — averaging $1150.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$40K
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$17K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$12K
- Bayer$1K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$76
- AstraZeneca$30
- plus $22 from 1 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $5064.72 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Sanofi$24K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$20K
- Merck$6K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$44,47463%
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,71824%
- Travel & lodging$6,71210%
- Food & beverage$2,1883%
- Education$1060%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 32 | $39,807 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $17,239 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $11,887 |
| Bayer | 1 | $1,136 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $30 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $22 |
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
$70,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 75 hematology & oncology providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fondaparinux Sodium | 12 | $10,070 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hematology & oncology in Iowa City
- Umang SwamiIowa City$54K
- Umar FarooqIowa City$30K
- Brian LinkIowa City$26K
- Mark KarwalIowa City$25K
- Mohammed MilhemIowa City$8K
- Laurel LyckholmIowa City$7K
- Christopher StrouseIowa City$7K
- Seth MaliskeIowa City$6K
- Douglas LauxIowa City$4K
- Varun MongaIowa City$2K
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.