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

Kamarajapuram Desikan

Hematology & Oncology Batesville, AR Medical Doctor

NPI 1619973500 CMS profile 72981

1710 Harrison St, Batesville, AR 72501

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General payments

$15,473

762 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, Kamarajapuram Desikan of Batesville, AR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $15,473 across 762 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 77th 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 $2,577 121
2024 General $2,924 125
2023 General $2,196 113
2022 General $2,384 126
2021 General $2,844 115
2020 General $530 36
2019 General $2,018 126

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Kamarajapuram Desikan were reported at $2,577. 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 Kamarajapuram Desikan Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,018 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $530 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $2,844 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $2,384 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $2,196 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $2,924 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $2,577 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $4,080 101 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,053 60 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $952 66 payments
  4. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $807 48 payments
  5. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $545 30 payments
  6. AbbVie, Inc. $493 26 payments
  7. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $466 25 payments
  8. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $452 28 payments
  9. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $450 30 payments
  10. Genzyme Corporation $410 22 payments
  11. Other $5,765 326 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $12,043 718 payments
  2. Long term medical supply or device loan $3,031 35 payments
  3. Education $399 9 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. KISQALI $3,095 54 payments
  2. KEYTRUDA $656 40 payments
  3. Lenvima $402 23 payments
  4. IBRANCE $367 24 payments
  5. ENHERTU $335 21 payments
  6. IMFINZI $331 19 payments
  7. TUKYSA $324 20 payments
  8. Tavalisse $316 19 payments
  9. LYNPARZA $310 18 payments
  10. VENCLEXTA $299 16 payments
  11. Other $11,703 690 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 · 21 drugs

Part D claims

916

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$1,316,424

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

Branded share of claims

13.6%

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
Iclusig Ponatinib Hcl Brand 14 $303,441
Jakafi Ruxolitinib Phosphate Brand 13 $229,907
Tagrisso Osimertinib Mesylate Brand 11 $219,170
Ibrance Palbociclib Brand 13 $209,548
Braftovi Encorafenib Brand 11 $164,838
Revlimid Lenalidomide Brand 13 $116,416
Imatinib Mesylate Generic 36 $41,268
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 25 $19,002
Letrozole Generic 312 $4,835
Exemestane Generic 37 $2,581

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 21 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 · 12 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$62,171

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

404

Average age 75

Services billed

1,046

288 women, 116 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 56%
Cancer 50%
Heart failure 43%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Ischemic heart disease 38%
COPD 33%
Diabetes 32%

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 53 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
KISQALI
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,112
$1,112 — —
ENHERTU
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $159
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $52
$211 — —
OJJAARA
  • GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $67
$67 — —
ELAHERE
  • AbbVie, Inc. $65
$65 — —
Lenvima
  • Eisai Inc. $62
$62 — —

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

762 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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