Who Paid My Doc
Kush Desai
Vascular & Interventional Radiology Chicago, IL Medical Doctor
NPI 1194906560 CMS profile 682357
676 N Saint Clair St, Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60611
General payments
$1,000,896
Research payments
$4,532
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$193,425
Through program year 2025, Kush Desai of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,000,896 across 776 general payments and $4,532 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $193,425 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $0 across 1 holding.
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 99th percentile of Vascular & Interventional Radiology 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 | $66,319 | 46 | |
| 2024 | General | $182,868 | 151 | |
| 2023 | General | $178,001 | 152 | |
| 2023 | Research | $4,132 | 5 | |
| 2022 | General | $287,760 | 204 | |
| 2021 | General | $171,238 | 111 | |
| 2020 | General | $68,844 | 56 | |
| 2020 | Research | $400 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $45,866 | 56 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $0 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Kush Desai
- Vascular & Interventional Radiology median
- Middle half of Vascular & Interventional Radiology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Kush Desai were reported at $66,319. Among 3,393 Vascular & Interventional Radiology profiles paid that year, the median was $534 and the middle half received between $166 and $2,075.
Show as a table
| Year | Kush Desai | Vascular & Interventional Radiology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $45,866 | $422 | $125–$1,555 | $163 |
| 2020 | $68,844 | $200 | $68–$652 | $114 |
| 2021 | $171,238 | $280 | $99–$866 | $132 |
| 2022 | $287,760 | $433 | $137–$1,497 | $149 |
| 2023 | $178,001 | $506 | $152–$2,019 | $160 |
| 2024 | $182,868 | $556 | $175–$1,930 | $164 |
| 2025 | $66,319 | $534 | $166–$2,075 | $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 · 3 drugsPart D claims
72
Drug cost
$64,781
Branded share of claims
65.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 47 | $56,092 | |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | Generic | 14 | $8,645 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 11 | $44 |
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 1,198 Part D prescribers listed as Diagnostic Radiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 93 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$75,594
Medicare patients
287
Services billed
789
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 57% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 49% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 46% | |
| Diabetes | 42% | |
| Heart failure | 37% | |
| Cancer | 30% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 28% |
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.
Records
782 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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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.