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

Craig Kessler

Hematology & Oncology Washington, DC Medical Doctor

NPI 1356340517 CMS profile 242513

3800 Reservoir Rd Nw, Washington, DC 20007

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General payments

$449,451

328 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$13,323

Paid to them · 10 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$385,028 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Craig Kessler of Washington, DC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $449,451 across 328 general payments and $13,323 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $385,028 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Hematology & Oncology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

12 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $37,647 34
2025 Research $2,405 3
2024 General $63,977 41
2024 Research $472 2
2023 General $71,561 59
2023 Research $7,718 3
2022 General $50,919 40
2022 Research $150 1
2021 General $69,190 46
2021 Research $2,579 1
2020 General $56,838 22
2019 General $99,319 86

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Craig Kessler
  • Hematology & Oncology median
  • Middle half of Hematology & Oncology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Craig Kessler were reported at $37,647. Among 8,769 Hematology & Oncology profiles paid that year, the median was $683 and the middle half received between $143 and $3,154.

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Year Craig Kessler Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $99,319 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $56,838 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $69,190 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $50,919 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $71,561 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $63,977 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $37,647 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novo Nordisk Inc $70,842 30 payments
  2. Octapharma USA, Inc. $59,992 35 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $47,880 21 payments
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $43,698 46 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $37,343 18 payments
  6. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $32,775 24 payments
  7. Genentech USA, Inc. $25,062 28 payments
  8. CSL Behring $22,914 14 payments
  9. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $15,385 20 payments
  10. Sanofi US Services Inc. $13,219 6 payments
  11. Other $80,341 86 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $290,377 89 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $67,757 100 payments
  3. Honoraria $45,370 13 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $36,914 17 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $8,771 106 payments
  6. Education $263 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NUWIQ $43,082 26 payments
  2. PROMACTA $35,471 13 payments
  3. NovoSeven RT $28,354 9 payments
  4. HEMLIBRA $25,977 29 payments
  5. Jivi $25,847 28 payments
  6. Idelvion $20,156 12 payments
  7. WILATE - VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR/COAGULATION FACTOR VIII COMPLEX (HUMAN) $18,770 16 payments
  8. HYMPAVZI $12,600 5 payments
  9. ADVATE $11,750 7 payments
  10. NovoSeven $9,995 5 payments
  11. Other $50,859 58 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG $10,137 3 payments
  2. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,655 2 payments
  3. Octapharma USA, Inc. $1,530 5 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

405

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$3,034,373

Median for Hematology-Oncology: $1,306,514

Branded share of claims

77.8%

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 31.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jakafi Ruxolitinib Phosphate Brand 85 $1,718,932
Besremi Ropeginterferon Alfa-2b-Njft Brand 29 $494,204
Pegasys Peginterferon Alfa-2a Brand 65 $281,059
Doptelet Avatrombopag Maleate Brand 12 $232,412
Promacta Eltrombopag Olamine Brand 24 $100,184
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 63 $83,441
Imatinib Mesylate Generic 24 $58,424
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 25 $41,466
Enoxaparin Sodium Generic 16 $10,710
Anagrelide Hcl Generic 12 $5,058

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 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 8,746 Part D prescribers listed as Hematology-Oncology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 20 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$2,521,239

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

214

Average age 73

Services billed

1,085,522

118 women, 96 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
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 61%
Ischemic heart disease 37%
Diabetes 29%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Depression 27%
Osteoporosis 26%
Heart failure 23%

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 6 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
NUWIQ
  • Octapharma USA, Inc. $23,111
$23,111 — —
WILATE - VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR/COAGULATION FACTOR VIII COMPLEX (HUMAN)
  • Octapharma USA, Inc. $11,265
$11,265 — —
ALTUVIIIO
  • GENZYME CORPORATION $134
$134 — —
HEMLIBRA
  • Genentech USA, Inc. $83
$83 — —
SevenFact
  • HEMA Biologics, LLC $38
$38 — —

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

338 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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