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

Santosh Saraf

Hematology & Oncology Chicago, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1407890650 CMS profile 602560

1740 W Taylor St, Dept 3462, Chicago, IL 60612

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General payments

$274,645

171 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$8,315

Paid to them · 8 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$1,778,258 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Santosh Saraf of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $274,645 across 171 general payments and $8,315 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,778,258 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 97th percentile of Hematology & Oncology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

12 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $33,491 30
2025 Research $1,270 2
2024 General $86,456 45
2024 Research $940 1
2023 General $34,927 23
2023 Research $1,395 3
2022 General $62,780 28
2022 Research $2,683 1
2021 General $36,510 19
2021 Research $2,027 1
2020 General $16,590 10
2019 General $3,891 16

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Santosh Saraf were reported at $33,491. 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 Santosh Saraf Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,891 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $16,590 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $36,510 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $62,780 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $34,927 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $86,456 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $33,491 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. $95,966 42 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $91,655 49 payments
  3. Novo Nordisk Inc $26,978 14 payments
  4. Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18,587 23 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $18,292 25 payments
  6. Chiesi USA, Inc. $7,847 3 payments
  7. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $6,734 8 payments
  8. CSL Behring $4,360 2 payments
  9. Omeros Corporation $2,240 1 payment
  10. Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc. $1,500 1 payment
  11. Other $485 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $149,446 56 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 $54,628 22 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $32,153 42 payments
  4. Honoraria $31,458 13 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $3,495 37 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $3,465 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. OXBRYTA Sickle Cell Disease $90,576 39 payments
  2. OXBRYTA Hematology $59,925 24 payments
  3. PYRUKYND $18,587 23 payments
  4. ADAKVEO Hematology $17,399 23 payments
  5. FERRIPROX $7,847 3 payments
  6. VYNDAMAX $5,775 1 payment
  7. Narsoplimab $2,240 1 payment
  8. Gammaplex $1,500 1 payment
  9. KEYTRUDA $1,094 6 payments
  10. ADAKVEO Hematology $655 1 payment
  11. Other $170 2 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $4,710 2 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $3,480 5 payments
  3. Novo Nordisk Inc $125 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 16 drugs

Part D claims

432

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$116,263

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

Branded share of claims

46.3%

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
Deferasirox Generic 22 $62,404
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 28 $17,705
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 18 $13,565
Sirolimus Generic 13 $7,654
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 12 $6,974
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 98 $2,613
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 44 $1,875
Morphine Sulfate Generic 44 $1,351
Hydromorphone Hcl Generic 39 $784
Methadone Hcl Generic 18 $415

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 16 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 · 11 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$5,625

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

35

Average age 50

Services billed

86

23 women, 12 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 69%
Arthritis 49%
Chronic kidney disease 37%
Alzheimer's or dementia 0%

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

5 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
OXBRYTA
  • PFIZER INC. $46,246
$46,246 — —
VYNDAMAX
  • PFIZER INC. $5,775
$5,775 — —
PYRUKYND
  • Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $4,065
$4,065 — —
KEYTRUDA
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $1,094
$1,094 — —
ADAKVEO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $655
$655 — —

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.

Records

179 reported

Every 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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What this means

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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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