Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Vijay Kannuthurai

Rheumatology Saint Louis, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1669967527 CMS profile 5110989

13100 Manchester Rd Ste 70, Saint Louis, MO 63131

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General payments

$3,842

151 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Vijay Kannuthurai of Saint Louis, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,842 across 151 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 56th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

4 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,083 56
2024 General $2,295 77
2023 General $452 17
2021 General $12 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Vijay Kannuthurai were reported at $1,083. 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 Vijay Kannuthurai Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $0 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $12 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $0 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $452 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $2,295 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $1,083 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $902 13 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $777 40 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $471 23 payments
  4. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $291 13 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $247 13 payments
  6. UCB, Inc. $228 10 payments
  7. Lilly USA, LLC $156 3 payments
  8. ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $153 3 payments
  9. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $152 8 payments
  10. Genzyme Corporation $82 4 payments
  11. Other $384 21 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,212 150 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $630 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. TREMFYA $849 10 payments
  2. RINVOQ $524 24 payments
  3. SAPHNELO $291 13 payments
  4. KRYSTEXXA $205 5 payments
  5. Cimzia $201 9 payments
  6. COSENTYX $186 10 payments
  7. BENLYSTA $152 8 payments
  8. SKYRIZI $127 7 payments
  9. ZEPBOUND $123 1 payment
  10. PURIFIED CORTROPHIN GEL $116 1 payment
  11. Other $1,179 73 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 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

562

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$10,261

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

17.3%

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
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 147 $4,068
Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium Brand 97 $1,799
Leflunomide Generic 31 $1,012
Pilocarpine Hcl Generic 18 $914
Celecoxib Generic 54 $710
Azathioprine Generic 16 $664
Prednisone Generic 107 $414
Colchicine Generic 14 $339
Folic Acid Generic 26 $257
Meloxicam Generic 22 $46

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

Paid by Medicare

$29,853

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

100

Average age 70

Services billed

341

74 women, 26 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 74%
Depression 37%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Osteoporosis 24%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Diabetes 19%
Atrial fibrillation 14%

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 26 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
TREMFYA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $720
$720 — —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $293
$293 — —
Cimzia
  • UCB, Inc. $185
$185 — —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $177
$177 — —
SAPHNELO
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $154
$154 — —

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

151 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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