Viswatej Avutu, MD
Medical Oncology · New York, NYNPI 1255759163
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,800 of the $3,857 with a category attached, or 98.5%. EMD Serono, Inc. accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $4,912.
Across 2 payments — averaging $1928.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- EMD Serono, Inc.$4K
- BTG International Inc.$57
Across 1 payment — averaging $240,120 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.
- Merck$240K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,80099%
- Food & beverage$571%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $3,800 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $57 |
How this compares
$3,857 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 498 medical oncology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Imatinib Mesylate | 46 | $91,969 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 12 | $224 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical oncology in New York
- Craig ThompsonNew York$4.8M
- Andrew SeidmanNew York$1.3M
- Joshua RichterNew York$971K
- Edward GelmannNew York$944K
- Ghassan Abou-AlfaNew York$825K
- Miguel PeralesNew York$769K
- Komal JhaveriNew York$642K
- Joshua BrodyNew York$492K
- Aiwu HeNew York$445K
- Raajit RampalNew York$418K
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.