Who Paid My Doc
James Essell
Hematology & Oncology Cincinnati, OH Medical Doctor
NPI 1265425078 CMS profile 656110
4777 E Galbraith Rd, Ste 320, Cincinnati, OH 45236
General payments
$214,444
Research payments
$4,332
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$3,526,651
Through program year 2025, James Essell of Cincinnati, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $214,444 across 178 general payments and $4,332 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $3,526,651 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 96th percentile of Hematology & Oncology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
10 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $13,414 | 13 | |
| 2024 | General | $53,827 | 42 | |
| 2023 | General | $18,767 | 26 | |
| 2022 | General | $38,803 | 23 | |
| 2021 | General | $34,229 | 18 | |
| 2021 | Research | $16 | 1 | |
| 2020 | General | $34,909 | 37 | |
| 2020 | Research | $2,619 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $20,495 | 19 | |
| 2019 | Research | $1,697 | 1 |
Beside peers
- James Essell
- Hematology & Oncology median
- Middle half of Hematology & Oncology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to James Essell were reported at $13,414. Among 8,769 Hematology & Oncology profiles paid that year, the median was $683 and the middle half received between $143 and $3,154.
Show as a table
| Year | James Essell | Hematology & Oncology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $20,495 | $529 | $121–$2,516 | $163 |
| 2020 | $34,909 | $339 | $82–$2,213 | $114 |
| 2021 | $34,229 | $263 | $49–$1,965 | $132 |
| 2022 | $38,803 | $416 | $103–$2,395 | $149 |
| 2023 | $18,767 | $542 | $125–$2,646 | $160 |
| 2024 | $53,827 | $692 | $141–$3,008 | $164 |
| 2025 | $13,414 | $683 | $143–$3,154 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 54 drugsPart D claims
1,987
Drug cost
$9,359,866
Branded share of claims
40.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calquence Acalabrutinib Maleate | Brand | 95 | $1,339,806 | |
| Scemblix Asciminib Hydrochloride | Brand | 13 | $1,314,287 | |
| Imbruvica Ibrutinib | Brand | 83 | $1,313,350 | |
| Pomalyst Pomalidomide | Brand | 43 | $941,560 | |
| Rezurock Belumosudil Mesylate | Brand | 41 | $916,266 | |
| Revlimid Lenalidomide | Brand | 48 | $835,594 | |
| Jakafi Ruxolitinib Phosphate | Brand | 56 | $740,287 | |
| Ayvakit Avapritinib | Brand | 13 | $506,790 | |
| Lenalidomide | Generic | 38 | $489,048 | |
| Jaypirca Pirtobrutinib | Brand | 18 | $390,294 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 54 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 130 Part D prescribers listed as Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 129 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$1,676,883
Medicare patients
309
Services billed
101,304
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 67% | |
| Arthritis | 44% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 30% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 29% | |
| Diabetes | 27% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 25% | |
| Depression | 23% | |
| Heart failure | 22% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, immune globulin, (octagam), intravenous, non-lyophilized (e.g., liquid), 500 mg J1568 | Office | 25 | 4,950 | $181,793 |
| Injection, granisetron hydrochloride, 100 mcg J1626 | Office | 12 | 820 | $205 |
| Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 | Office | 35 | 1,683 | $139 |
| Infusion, normal saline solution , 1000 cc J7030 | Office | 18 | 33 | $69 |
| Injection, diphenhydramine hcl, up to 50 mg J1200 | Office | 25 | 82 | $46 |
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 11 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPKINLY |
|
$31,312 | — | — |
| Yescarta |
|
$7,950 | — | — |
| TECVAYLI |
|
$3,135 | — | — |
| Pomalyst |
|
$300 | 43 | — |
| DARZALEX |
|
$195 | — | — |
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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.