Who Paid My Doc
Nihar Desai
Cardiovascular Disease New Haven, CT Medical Doctor
NPI 1700930120 CMS profile 697028
20 York St, New Haven, CT 06510
General payments
$1,357,685
Research payments
$64,632
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$1,854,792
Through program year 2025, Nihar Desai of New Haven, CT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,357,685 across 1,235 general payments and $64,632 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,854,792 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 99th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
14 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $299,378 | 241 | |
| 2025 | Research | $17,186 | 4 | |
| 2024 | General | $225,436 | 254 | |
| 2024 | Research | $4,741 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $278,590 | 304 | |
| 2023 | Research | $19,021 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $152,179 | 143 | |
| 2022 | Research | $2,621 | 3 | |
| 2021 | General | $148,760 | 124 | |
| 2021 | Research | $17,062 | 2 | |
| 2020 | General | $115,604 | 79 | |
| 2020 | Research | $1,367 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $137,737 | 90 | |
| 2019 | Research | $2,635 | 3 |
Beside peers
- Nihar Desai
- Cardiovascular Disease median
- Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Nihar Desai were reported at $299,378. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.
Show as a table
| Year | Nihar Desai | Cardiovascular Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $137,737 | $450 | $127–$1,392 | $163 |
| 2020 | $115,604 | $242 | $77–$751 | $114 |
| 2021 | $148,760 | $335 | $101–$1,037 | $132 |
| 2022 | $152,179 | $395 | $121–$1,211 | $149 |
| 2023 | $278,590 | $443 | $136–$1,283 | $160 |
| 2024 | $225,436 | $450 | $136–$1,323 | $164 |
| 2025 | $299,378 | $432 | $132–$1,252 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 10 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$9,357
Medicare patients
85
Services billed
127
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Heart failure | 62% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 60% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 54% | |
| Arthritis | 48% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 47% | |
| Diabetes | 39% | |
| Depression | 39% |
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 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repatha |
|
$98,540 | — | — |
| Kerendia |
|
$30,089 | — | — |
| LEQVIO |
|
$9,961 | — | — |
| FARXIGA |
|
$2,150 | — | — |
| EVKEEZA |
|
$227 | — | — |
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.