Profile state: payments and partdOpen Payments: 2025Medicare Part D: 2024Last identity check: 2026-08-10Page data build: 2026-08-12
Verified facts
What the public records show
CMS Open Payments records show Kit Y Lu, M.D. received $228,849.35 in general payments during 2025 across 184 reported records.
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP accounted for 43.6% of that reported general-payment amount.
The Open Payments records used for this analysis explicitly named 7 associated products.
A separate comparison found the same explicitly named product in public Medicare Part D data: Ibrance, Kisqali.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation reported payments to this doctor in 2025. Across the 2025 Open Payments General Payment records loaded for this analysis, that same reporting entity reported KISQALI as an associated drug or biological on 31637 records involving 7959 distinct recipient NPIs. Public Medicare Part D data also shows 25 claims for Kisqali by this doctor in 2024.
PFIZER INC. reported payments to this doctor in 2025. Across the 2025 Open Payments General Payment records loaded for this analysis, that same reporting entity reported ELIQUIS as an associated drug or biological on 87112 records involving 36032 distinct recipient NPIs. Public Medicare Part D data also shows 15 claims for Eliquis by this doctor in 2024.
PFIZER INC. reported payments to this doctor in 2025. Across the 2025 Open Payments General Payment records loaded for this analysis, that same reporting entity reported IBRANCE as an associated drug or biological on 11505 records involving 4934 distinct recipient NPIs. Public Medicare Part D data also shows 41 claims for Ibrance by this doctor in 2024.
These records do not establish that a payment influenced prescribing or medical care.
Payment overview · 2025
General Payments
$228,849.35
184 reported records · 8 companies
Separate record types
Research & Ownership
Research Payments (direct recipient): not present in the loaded data
Associated Research Funding (for example, named PI): not present in the loaded data
Ownership / Investment: not present in the loaded data
These categories are never added into the General Payments headline. Associated research funding must not be described as money the doctor personally received unless the source record supports that conclusion.
Who paid this doctor?
Companies in 2025 General Payments
Reported company
Canonical company
Amount
Share
Records
Year
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$99,807.13
43.6%
68
2025
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$58,983.30
25.8%
47
2025
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$40,977.53
17.9%
44
2025
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$14,770.09
6.5%
12
2025
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$10,590.19
4.6%
5
2025
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$2,283.95
1.0%
5
2025
PFIZER INC.
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$1,359.17
0.6%
2
2025
SEAGEN INC.
Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown
$77.99
0.0%
1
2025
What were the payments for?
Payment categories
Category
Amount
Records
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program
$182,730.00
39
Travel and Lodging
$25,315.40
64
Consulting Fee
$15,292.50
10
Food and Beverage
$5,390.21
69
Education
$121.24
2
A meal, consulting fee, royalty, and travel payment describe different kinds of reported relationships and should not be interpreted as equivalent.
Analysis 1 · Payment-linked products
Products named in Open Payments records
Reported product
Type
Reported company
Related amount*
Records
Year
ENHERTU Normalized: enhertu
Biological, Drug
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Daiichi Sankyo Inc.
The presence of the same drug in both datasets does not show that a payment caused or influenced a prescription.
Analysis 2 · Same-company prescribing overlap
Drugs reported in other payments from the same company that also appear in Medicare Part D
This analysis is independent from products named on this doctor’s individual payment records. A row appears only when the exact Open Payments reporting entity paid this doctor, that same reporting entity reported the drug or biological on at least 10 loaded General Payment records involving at least 2 distinct recipient NPIs, and this doctor has the same non-generic brand in public Part D data. This does not mean the company owns or manufactures the drug.
Paying company
Payment year
Drug reported by same entity
Open Payments evidence
Part D
Claims
Beneficiaries
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Exact reporting entity; no affiliate inference
Ibrance · 2024 Exact normalized brand match · 1 Part D row
41
suppressed by CMS
These facts do not show that a payment was for the drug, that the company owns or manufactures the drug, or that a payment caused or influenced prescribing.
Public Medicare Part D data
Provider-and-drug rows loaded for 2024
Brand
Generic
Claims
Beneficiaries
Anastrozole
Anastrozole
1022
317
Letrozole
Letrozole
129
47
Ondansetron Hcl
Ondansetron Hcl
57
32
Verzenio
Abemaciclib
51
suppressed
Tamoxifen Citrate
Tamoxifen Citrate
50
18
Gabapentin
Gabapentin
42
suppressed
Ibrance
Palbociclib
41
suppressed
Exemestane
Exemestane
40
12
Potassium Chloride
Potassium Chloride
38
suppressed
Prochlorperazine Maleate
Prochlorperazine Maleate
33
24
Kisqali
Ribociclib Succinate
25
suppressed
Diphenoxylate-Atropine
Diphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine
24
suppressed
Alendronate Sodium
Alendronate Sodium
23
suppressed
Dexamethasone
Dexamethasone
18
15
Famotidine
Famotidine
17
suppressed
Xarelto
Rivaroxaban
17
suppressed
Eliquis
Apixaban
15
suppressed
Furosemide
Furosemide
14
suppressed
Lidocaine-Prilocaine
Lidocaine/Prilocaine
14
13
Timeline
Payment and prescribing data by year
Open Payments and Medicare Part D may refer to different years. They are shown separately rather than aligned as if they describe the same period.
What role, if any, does Ibrance play in your treatment recommendations for me?
How do you evaluate evidence when you have a financial relationship with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation?
Are there reasonable alternatives I should understand when we discuss treatment options?
How should I interpret the industry-payment records shown here in the context of my care?
These are general questions generated from reviewed templates. They are not personalized medical advice.
Sources and limitations
How to read this page
Payment and Medicare prescribing data can cover different years; every comparison shows both years explicitly.
Part D does not represent a doctor’s entire practice; it excludes many patients and is subject to CMS public-release thresholds.
Company–drug relationships must have an auditable source, a precise relationship type, and a valid evidence period. Unresolved mappings are not published.
Generic drug claims are not attributed to a specific manufacturer without manufacturer-level evidence.
When a source extract is incomplete, missing rows are never treated as proof of no payments or no prescriptions.