RxDoctor Payments Data

Varun Dhulipala, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Columbia, TNNPI 1902196165

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,697in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 322 payments — averaging $23.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$831
  • AstraZeneca$771
  • Merck$412
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$397
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$304
  • Eisai Inc.$283
  • plus $5K from 52 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,57898%
  • Education$1192%

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

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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.

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

$7,697 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 251 hematology & oncology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,325,281
Medicare patients
765
Services billed
192,969

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate20$491,702
BrukinsaZanubrutinib34$491,552
RevlimidLenalidomide26$464,107
CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate22$339,482
ImbruvicaIbrutinib21$313,395
PomalystPomalidomide12$266,097
IbrancePalbociclib13$201,963
LonsurfTrifluridine/Tipiracil Hcl20$198,454
XermeloTelotristat Etiprate13$120,421
EliquisApixaban124$86,151
Imatinib Mesylate32$18,670
XareltoRivaroxaban27$15,325
Exemestane23$6,668
Anastrozole276$6,594
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen94$3,359

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx$108$491,70220 claims
Beigene USA, Inc.Brukinsa$35$491,55234 claims
Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid$304$464,10726 claims
AstraZenecaCalquence$771$339,48222 claims
PfizerIbrance, Eliquis$184$288,115137 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst$243$266,09712 claims
Taiho Oncology, Inc.Lonsurf$95$198,45420 claims
Tersera Therapeutics LLCXermelo$170$120,42113 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$218$15,32527 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 40th percentile of 251 hematology & oncology providers in Tennessee.

Other hematology & oncology in Columbia

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