Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Avnit Ahuja

Rheumatology Richmond, VA Medical Doctor

NPI 1962616474 CMS profile 180546

7702 E Parham Rd Ste 101, Richmond, VA 23294

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General payments

$11,647

574 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Avnit Ahuja of Richmond, VA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,647 across 574 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 74th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $3,181 160
2024 General $2,554 124
2023 General $2,737 134
2022 General $1,279 64
2021 General $509 24
2020 General $606 29
2019 General $781 39

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Avnit Ahuja
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Avnit Ahuja were reported at $3,181. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Avnit Ahuja Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $781 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $606 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $509 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $1,279 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $2,737 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $2,554 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $3,181 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $2,006 98 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $1,220 86 payments
  3. UCB, Inc. $1,132 48 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,103 47 payments
  5. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $984 35 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $869 53 payments
  7. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $418 30 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $409 21 payments
  9. Horizon Therapeutics plc $404 20 payments
  10. Radius Health, Inc. $400 16 payments
  11. Other $2,703 120 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $11,184 567 payments
  2. Education $463 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RINVOQ $851 56 payments
  2. XELJANZ $824 51 payments
  3. TREMFYA $780 24 payments
  4. Otezla $745 30 payments
  5. Cimzia $691 31 payments
  6. COSENTYX $622 29 payments
  7. Enbrel $545 21 payments
  8. Bimzelx $441 17 payments
  9. BENLYSTA $418 30 payments
  10. SIMPONI ARIA $369 19 payments
  11. Other $6,853 339 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 19 drugs

Part D claims

1,375

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$24,196

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

14.4%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 217 $7,139
Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium Brand 179 $3,588
Leflunomide Generic 67 $3,231
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 154 $1,947
Prednisone Generic 285 $1,916
Mycophenolate Mofetil Generic 24 $1,327
Pilocarpine Hcl Generic 13 $1,259
Azathioprine Generic 21 $667
Methylprednisolone Generic 63 $488
Sulfasalazine Dr Sulfasalazine Brand 19 $486

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 19 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 59 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$352,094

Of which drugs: $230,108

Medicare patients

230

Average age 74

Services billed

20,884

180 women, 50 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 70%
Osteoporosis 40%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Depression 25%
Diabetes 19%
Chronic kidney disease 18%
COPD 17%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 44 3,660 $76,017
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 Office 18 20 $76
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 40 56 $6

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 35 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
XELJANZ
  • PFIZER INC. $225
$225 — —
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $220
$220 — —
Cimzia
  • UCB, Inc. $209
$209 — —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $194
$194 — —
TREMFYA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $143
$143 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

574 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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