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

Zhao Lu

Hematology & Oncology Milford, CT Medical Doctor

NPI 1043389174 CMS profile 229218

849 Boston Post Rd, Suite 100, Milford, CT 06460

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General payments

$18,207

831 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, Zhao Lu of Milford, CT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $18,207 across 831 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 79th 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 $3,178 138
2024 General $2,922 126
2023 General $3,077 124
2022 General $2,694 134
2021 General $2,920 136
2020 General $1,386 66
2019 General $2,029 107

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Zhao Lu were reported at $3,178. 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 Zhao Lu Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,029 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $1,386 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $2,920 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $2,694 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $3,077 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $2,922 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $3,178 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $1,977 69 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $1,617 106 payments
  3. Seattle Genetics, Inc. $1,128 31 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,029 49 payments
  5. Incyte Corporation $872 47 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $806 27 payments
  7. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $790 46 payments
  8. Astellas Pharma US Inc $666 17 payments
  9. Array BioPharma Inc. $646 37 payments
  10. Celgene Corporation $560 30 payments
  11. Other $8,116 372 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $15,444 790 payments
  2. Education $2,763 41 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DARZALEX $1,076 36 payments
  2. IMBRUVICA $765 31 payments
  3. KEYTRUDA $764 44 payments
  4. BRAFTOVI $673 39 payments
  5. MEKTOVI $604 35 payments
  6. XTANDI $595 28 payments
  7. JAKAFI $483 32 payments
  8. ZEPZELCA $474 26 payments
  9. ADCETRIS $471 32 payments
  10. MONJUVI $434 25 payments
  11. Other $15,991 800 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 · 20 drugs

Part D claims

516

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$930,652

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

Branded share of claims

46.9%

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
Erleada Apalutamide Brand 22 $355,702
Calquence Acalabrutinib Maleate Brand 12 $214,153
Imbruvica Ibrutinib Brand 13 $212,182
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 94 $89,101
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 43 $36,999
Procrit Epoetin Alfa Brand 12 $12,619
Anagrelide Hcl Generic 14 $5,158
Imatinib Mesylate Generic 11 $811
Letrozole Generic 31 $711
Hydroxyurea Generic 42 $657

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 20 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 · 78 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,275,660

Of which drugs: $1,066,611

Medicare patients

374

Average age 76

Services billed

97,064

227 women, 147 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%
Arthritis 51%
Chronic kidney disease 35%
Diabetes 34%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Heart failure 29%
Depression 29%
COPD 27%
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, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 30 4,740 $97,534
Injection, ferric carboxymaltose, 1 mg J1439 Office 32 45,750 $39,885
Injection, epoetin alfa, biosimilar, (retacrit) (for non-esrd use), 1000 units Q5106 Office 20 4,180 $24,235
Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 Office 17 133 $675
Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 Office 21 91 $85
Infusion, normal saline solution, sterile (500 ml = 1 unit) J7040 Office 13 70 $72
Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc J7050 Office 25 43 $22

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 54 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
DARZALEX
$216 — —
AIRSUPRA
$125 — —
Fabhalta
$115 — —
ELIQUIS
$114 94 —
ZEPZELCA
$99 — —

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

831 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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