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

Sepehr Mesdaghinia

Rheumatology Leesburg, VA Medical Doctor

NPI 1699069898 CMS profile 639079

821 S King St Ste L, Leesburg, VA 20175

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General payments

$14,437

360 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, Sepehr Mesdaghinia of Leesburg, VA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $14,437 across 360 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 78th percentile of Rheumatology 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 $8,535 133
2024 General $1,773 62
2023 General $1,084 37
2022 General $1,030 51
2021 General $583 25
2020 General $420 16
2019 General $1,011 36

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sepehr Mesdaghinia
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sepehr Mesdaghinia were reported at $8,535. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Sepehr Mesdaghinia Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,011 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $420 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $583 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $1,030 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $1,084 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $1,773 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $8,535 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $6,285 39 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $1,248 43 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $1,022 46 payments
  4. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $942 46 payments
  5. ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $800 31 payments
  6. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $732 26 payments
  7. UCB, Inc. $509 20 payments
  8. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $427 19 payments
  9. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $300 11 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $277 9 payments
  11. Other $1,897 70 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $9,033 346 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $2,975 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $2,167 6 payments
  4. Education $262 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ACTHAR $732 26 payments
  2. TREMFYA $716 26 payments
  3. RINVOQ $596 25 payments
  4. COSENTYX $521 18 payments
  5. PURIFIED CORTROPHIN GEL $510 18 payments
  6. SIMPONI ARIA $466 22 payments
  7. BENLYSTA $427 19 payments
  8. Otezla $348 10 payments
  9. KRYSTEXXA $303 8 payments
  10. STELARA $300 11 payments
  11. Other $4,928 214 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 · 35 drugs

Part D claims

1,853

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$2,542,618

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

39.1%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 98 $665,793
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 41 $361,783
Cosentyx Unoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 17 $255,240
Xeljanz Xr Tofacitinib Citrate Brand 35 $230,075
Kevzara Sarilumab Brand 46 $197,952
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 25 $157,009
Taltz Autoinjector (2 Pack) Ixekizumab Brand 11 $152,915
Humira(Cf) Adalimumab Brand 14 $97,304
Cosentyx Sensoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 11 $93,116
Orencia Abatacept/Maltose Brand 16 $83,380

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 35 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 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 27 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,008,228

Of which drugs: $898,959

Medicare patients

268

Average age 72

Services billed

111,718

205 women, 63 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
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 65%
Osteoporosis 38%
Depression 22%
Ischemic heart disease 21%
Diabetes 20%
Chronic kidney disease 15%
COPD 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 12 5,625 $190,691
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 22 20,850 $189,956
Injection, certolizumab pegol, 1 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0717 Office 21 54,000 $188,509
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 51 5,340 $109,924

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 23 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
ACTHAR
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $256
$256 — —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $194
$194 — —
PURIFIED CORTROPHIN GEL
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $145
$145 — —
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $138
$138 28 —
TALTZ
  • Lilly USA, LLC $125
$125 11 —

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

360 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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