Katrina E Wright, 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
• Franciscan Health Rensselaer, Inc Hospital · Rensselaer, IN
• Methodist Hospitals Inc Hospital · Gary, IN · listed as The Methodist Hospitals, Inc
• St Catherine Hospital Inc Hospital · East Chicago, IN
• St Mary Medical Center Inc Hospital · Hobart, IN
• Concerto Indiana LLC Dialysis facility · Merrillville, IN
• Fmc - Gary Dialysis Dialysis facility · Gary, IN · listed as Everest Healthcare Indiana, Inc
• Fmc - Portage Dialysis Center Dialysis facility · Portage, IN · listed as The Dialysis Center of Portage LLC

Also affiliated with 2 inpatient rehabilitation facilities, 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
• Miss. Carolyne Jepchirchir Jepkorir, MD Nephrology Physician · Indianapolis, IN
• Irfan Munir Nephrology Physician · Fort Wayne, IN
• Jacob C Shively Nurse Practitioner · Fort Wayne, IN
• Dr. Kanakapura Venkatakrishna, MD Nephrology Physician · Fort Wayne, IN
• Kathleen Wallace, APN Nurse Practitioner · Merrillville, IN
• Dr. Mindaugas Zekonis, MD Nephrology Physician · Indianapolis, IN

Other providers in Merrillville

• Dr. Kevin Andre Myrie, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1316193162

  90 W 86th Ave Nephrology Associates Of Northern Indiana, Merrillville, IN 46410-7086 · (219) 791-1555

• Dr. Vikash Kumar Sinha, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1740628726

  757 E 81st Ave, Merrillville, IN 46410-5538 · (219) 472-0379

• Marisela Varela, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1780678870

  90 W 86th Ave, Merrillville, IN 46410-7086 · (219) 791-1555

• Venkat Vavilala, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1730186081

  90 W 86th Ave, Merrillville, IN 46410-7086 · (219) 791-1555