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Christine Bestvina

Chicago, IL. NPI 1720354137. Hematology & Oncology.

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What was reported, 2019–2025

$234.3 thousand
General payments
$234,324
212 separate payments. Meals, travel, speaking and consulting fees, gifts.
$17.0 thousand
Research payments
$16,997
Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
$0
Ownership and investment
The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
11
Disputed
11 of the payments above are contested by this doctor. CMS publishes them, and the dispute, as reported.

By program year

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General and research payments to Christine Bestvina, by program year
Program yearGeneralResearch
2025$44,433$3,600
2024$58,986$0
2023$41,153$0
2022$25,326$0
2021$29,200$0
2020$9,439$820
2019$25,787$12,577

CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.

The record

1720354137
National Provider Identifier
The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
Hematology & Oncology
Specialty
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians, in CMS's taxonomy.
IL
Licensed in
The state of the licence CMS lists first.
Covered Recipient Physician
Recipient type
How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.

Medicare prescribing

What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.

275
Claims
Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.
$1,625,908
Total drug cost
What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.
58
Beneficiaries
People with at least one prescription from this provider.
131
Brand-name claims
Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug.
144
Generic claims
Of the claims above, those for a generic.
18
Opioid claims
CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 6.545454545454546% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.
17
Antibiotic claims
Claims for an antibiotic.
Hematology-Oncology
Prescriber type
As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: M.D..

A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.

Elsewhere

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