Navina Kapur Birk

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Henry Ford Health Hospital Hospital · Detroit, MI · listed as Henry Ford Health-Main Hospital
• Henry Ford Health West Bloomfield Hospital Hospital · W Bloomfield, MI · listed as Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

Colleagues at Henry Ford Health System

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2540 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Samia Bell, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Detroit, MI
• Raechele C. Gathers, MD Dermatology Physician · Detroit, MI
• Sharmila Ghosh, MD Hematology (Pathology) Physician · Detroit, MI
• Dr. Gina Gora, MD Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician · West Bloomfield, MI
• Jillian Christine Kim, PA-C Physician Assistant · Detroit, MI
• Margaret Little, LMSW Social Worker · Detroit, MI
• Faraz Mahmood, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Detroit, MI
• Jennifer M McCorquodale, NP Nurse Practitioner · Detroit, MI
• Mr. Jeffrey McMahon, PA Physician Assistant · Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
• Dr. Edward William Pollak, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Royal Oak, MI
• Cheryl J Schimers, NP Nurse Practitioner · Mt Clemens, MI
• Dr. Jawad Sheqwara, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Waycross, GA

Other providers in Detroit

• George J Alangaden, MD

  Individual Infectious Disease Physician · NPI 1194762799

  2799 W Grand Blvd Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202-2608 · (313) 916-2573

• Denise Araujo, MD

  Individual Infectious Disease Physician · NPI 1669055224

  2799 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202-2689 · (313) 916-2573

• Asgar Alihusain Boxwalla, MD

  Individual Infectious Disease Physician · NPI 1740248541

  7733 E Jefferson Ave Ste 2C, Detroit, MI 48214-3707 · (313) 499-4255

• Indira Brar, MD

  Individual Infectious Disease Physician · NPI 1699843128

  Henry Ford Health System 2799 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202 · (313) 916-2436

• Perani Vyjayanthi Chander, MD

  Individual Infectious Disease Physician · NPI 1356905970

  3901 Chrysler Dr Ste 4A, Detroit, MI 48201-2167 · (313) 966-7601

• Dr. Thea De Jesus Chua, MD

  Individual Infectious Disease Physician · NPI 1336358589

  2799 W Grand Blvd CFP-304, Detroit, MI 48202-2608 · (313) 916-2573