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

Kala Seetharman

Hematology & Oncology Worcester, MA Medical Doctor

NPI 1710969050 CMS profile 169278

1 Eaton Pl Ste 23, Worcester, MA 01608

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General payments

$7,879

192 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$4,100 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2020

Through program year 2025, Kala Seetharman of Worcester, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,879 across 192 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $4,100 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 67th percentile of Hematology & Oncology 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 $1,916 53
2024 General $1,415 44
2023 General $558 21
2022 General $169 7
2021 General $85 5
2020 General $308 14
2019 General $3,429 48

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Kala Seetharman were reported at $1,916. 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 Kala Seetharman Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,429 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $308 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $85 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $169 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $558 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $1,415 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $1,916 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Celgene Corporation $2,671 5 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $965 35 payments
  3. Eisai Inc. $524 16 payments
  4. Exelixis Inc. $395 15 payments
  5. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $375 18 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $319 10 payments
  7. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $300 8 payments
  8. Stemline Therapeutics Inc. $237 8 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $228 5 payments
  10. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $184 6 payments
  11. Other $1,681 66 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,136 183 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $2,503 3 payments
  3. Education $240 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Revlimid $2,643 4 payments
  2. Lenvima $524 16 payments
  3. KEYTRUDA $319 10 payments
  4. CABOMETYX $307 10 payments
  5. ENHERTU $270 8 payments
  6. OPDIVO $245 11 payments
  7. Orserdu $237 8 payments
  8. IMFINZI $198 6 payments
  9. LYNPARZA $188 9 payments
  10. Stivarga $184 6 payments
  11. Other $3,763 137 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 · 25 drugs

Part D claims

1,002

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$3,892,611

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

Branded share of claims

25.5%

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
Revlimid Lenalidomide Brand 56 $1,035,594
Pomalyst Pomalidomide Brand 39 $790,760
Xtandi Enzalutamide Brand 57 $770,270
Lenalidomide Generic 47 $541,071
Lynparza Olaparib Brand 30 $424,493
Calquence Acalabrutinib Maleate Brand 11 $169,661
Tagrisso Osimertinib Mesylate Brand 12 $103,483
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 22 $18,619
Abiraterone Acetate Generic 32 $11,289
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 12 $7,879

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 25 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 · 16 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$71,572

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

329

Average age 73

Services billed

744

189 women, 140 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%
Cancer 47%
Arthritis 43%
Ischemic heart disease 33%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
Diabetes 28%
Depression 25%
Atrial fibrillation 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 19 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
ENHERTU
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $165
$165 — —
KEYTRUDA
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $163
$163 — —
Lenvima
  • Eisai Inc. $131
$131 — —
IMFINZI
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $96
$96 — —
Orserdu
  • Stemline Therapeutics Inc. $92
$92 — —

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

192 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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