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

Richards Afonja

Hematology & Oncology Clifton, NJ Medical Doctor

NPI 1255300141 CMS profile 329397

476 Colfax Ave, Clifton, NJ 07013

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General payments

$9,219

444 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

$164,933 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2022–2025

Through program year 2025, Richards Afonja of Clifton, NJ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $9,219 across 444 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $164,933 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 70th 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 $2,034 107
2024 General $1,573 84
2023 General $1,175 44
2022 General $1,015 40
2021 General $1,308 36
2020 General $392 27
2019 General $1,721 106

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Richards Afonja were reported at $2,034. 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 Richards Afonja Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,721 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $392 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $1,308 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $1,015 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $1,175 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $1,573 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $2,034 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,958 73 payments
  2. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $898 41 payments
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $883 34 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $567 38 payments
  5. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $438 24 payments
  6. Incyte Corporation $405 14 payments
  7. Celgene Corporation $398 28 payments
  8. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $347 22 payments
  9. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $299 6 payments
  10. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $278 15 payments
  11. Other $2,747 149 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $7,447 419 payments
  2. Long term medical supply or device loan $1,098 12 payments
  3. Education $674 13 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. KISQALI $1,159 25 payments
  2. DARZALEX $407 20 payments
  3. OPDIVO $397 21 payments
  4. ERLEADA $376 14 payments
  5. KEYTRUDA $347 22 payments
  6. JARDIANCE $250 2 payments
  7. REBLOZYL $228 16 payments
  8. FARXIGA $224 2 payments
  9. LYNPARZA $211 12 payments
  10. Lenvima $209 14 payments
  11. Other $6,738 395 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 · 79 drugs

Part D claims

2,325

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$6,322,662

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

Branded share of claims

35.7%

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
Promacta Eltrombopag Olamine Brand 203 $2,424,362
Imbruvica Ibrutinib Brand 36 $604,535
Jakafi Ruxolitinib Phosphate Brand 31 $418,957
Lenalidomide Generic 28 $396,123
Ibrance Palbociclib Brand 20 $315,629
Lenvima Lenvatinib Mesylate Brand 11 $278,568
Opdivo Nivolumab Brand 11 $225,778
Privigen Immun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-50 Brand 42 $219,511
Truxima Rituximab-Abbs Brand 19 $185,983
Pomalyst Pomalidomide Brand 12 $183,546

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 79 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 · 53 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$171,159

Of which drugs: $1,523

Medicare patients

323

Average age 74

Services billed

3,803

186 women, 137 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%
Diabetes 59%
Arthritis 50%
Ischemic heart disease 47%
Cancer 42%
Chronic kidney disease 37%
Heart failure 30%
COPD 29%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc J7050 Office 26 181 $92
Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 Office 21 46 $48

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 43 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
OPDIVO
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $186
$186 11 —
DARZALEX
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $156
$156 — —
BOSULIF
  • PFIZER INC. $80
$80 — —
TECVAYLI
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $69
$69 — —
REBLOZYL
  • Celgene Corporation $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

444 reported

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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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