Gaurav Agarwal, MD

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. Those with a page here are linked.

• Franciscan Health Crown Point Hospital · Crown Point, IN
• Methodist Hospitals Inc Hospital · Gary, IN · listed as The Methodist Hospitals, Inc
• St Mary Medical Center Inc Hospital · Hobart, IN
• Dialyze Direct Carmel, IN Dialysis facility · Carmel, IN · listed as Dialyze Direct in LLC
• Fmc - Portage Dialysis Center Dialysis facility · Portage, IN · listed as The Dialysis Center of Portage LLC
• Gary Dialysis Center Dialysis facility · Gary, IN · listed as The Dialysis Center of Gary LLC
• Merrillville North Dialysis Center Dialysis facility · Merrillville, IN · listed as Dialysis Care Center Merrillville LLC
• Parkview Regional Medical Center Hospital · Fort Wayne, IN

Also affiliated with 1 inpatient rehabilitation facility, which CMS identifies by certification number only.

Colleagues at Nephrology Associates of Northern Indiana PC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 64 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Cindy Chapman, NURSEPRACTITIONER Family Nurse Practitioner · Merrillville, IN
• Dr. Asim Chughtai, MD Nephrology Physician · Hammond, IN
• Kristoph M Giricz, MD Nephrology Physician · Hammond, IN
• Garima Gupta, MD Nephrology Physician · Fort Wayne, IN
• Rachel Joyce Hiple Physician Assistant · Fort Wayne, IN
• Erica Lynn Horne, FNP-C Nurse Practitioner · Indianapolis, IN
• Irfan Munir Nephrology Physician · Fort Wayne, IN
• Dr. Kanakapura Venkatakrishna, MD Nephrology Physician · Fort Wayne, IN
• Elizabeth Wathen, RD Renal Nutrition Registered Dietitian · Indianapolis, IN
• Mrs. Jessie M Whiteman, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Fort Wayne, IN
• Katrina E Wright, MD Nephrology Physician · Merrillville, IN
• Dr. Mindaugas Zekonis, MD Nephrology Physician · Indianapolis, IN

Other providers in Merrillville

• Vallee M. Adams-Miller, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1902898505

  8777 Broadway, Merrillville, IN 46410-7035 · (219) 736-5151

• Dr. Muhammad Alsayid, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1326356411

  101 E 87th Ave Ste 410, Merrillville, IN 46410-7356 · (219) 644-3990

• Andre K Artis, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1811987688

  5800 Broadway Ste A-J, Merrillville, IN 46410-2601 · (219) 884-9180

• Dr. Mohammed Asgar, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1023004587

  8777 Broadway Ste A, Merrillville, IN 46410-6694 · (219) 756-0960

• Bishoy M Barsoum, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1659908986

  8555 Taft St, Merrillville, IN 46410-6123 · (219) 769-4005