A nephrologist who serves as medical director of a major New York City dialysis company spent months posting antisemitic slurs, racial epithets, and sexually obscene attacks against Republican lawmakers, Jewish public figures, and supporters of President Donald Trump, all from an X account that used his own photograph as its avatar.
Dr. Pravin Bhat, who oversees clinical operations at Atlantic Dialysis Management Services, ran the account @PravocAuteur with almost no effort to conceal his identity, the Washington Free Beacon reported on July 9. His profile described him as "The Nephologist [sic] driving around Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx" and boasted about "refer[ing] to MAGA in vermin-like terms."
Minutes after the Free Beacon emailed Bhat for comment, the account was locked. Neither Bhat nor Atlantic Dialysis responded to requests for comment.
The posts span from at least late 2023 through May 2026 and cover a wide range of targets, nearly all of them conservative, Jewish, or both.
In December 2025, when Black Republican congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas floated a debate with Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Bhat responded with a racial slur: "She'll f*** you up," followed by the slur. In May 2026, he called the Indian children of Rep. Brandon Gill, who is married to Danielle D'Souza, daughter of conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, "filthy."
His antisemitic output was persistent. In October 2025, he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "the jewish polish equivalent of hitler." Weeks after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks that killed more than 1,200 people, he accused Jews of playing the "victim card." In a separate post, he responded to an image of the September 11 attacks with: "No we never forget what Israel did."
Jewish public figures drew particular venom. He called actor Michael Rapaport, who had said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's New York felt unsafe, a "herpes-riddled p****" in November 2025. In March 2026, he told radio host Sid Rosenberg, "You look like a disease-ridden penis. You've got the personality of a disease-ridden penis too." In May 2026, he called Sam Antar, a Jewish former business owner and frequent Mamdani critic, an "aids riddled penis."
Female Republican lawmakers were a recurring target. Bhat called Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida to "shut up b****" after she criticized Mamdani. He labeled Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee a "dishonest b****." He used a vulgar slur against Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina when she criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar. He called a female Fox News reporter the same epithet after she pointed out overflowing garbage piles in midtown Manhattan.
He directed crude sexual language at President Trump, calling him a vulgar slur and a "mushroom c***" while accusing him of being a "rapist." He accused conservative commentators Buck Sexton and Gunther Eagleman of being closeted homosexuals "with no verification." His profile photo, he wrote, showed "the face of someone who j***ed on your mom."
This is not a random internet troll venting from a basement. This is the medical director of a company that operates a dialysis clinic inside a New York City public hospital.
Campaign finance records show Bhat donated $250 to Mamdani in November, per NYC Campaign Finance Board filings. Federal Election Commission records show he also donated $100 to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His online activity was heavily oriented toward defending Mamdani, he attacked critics of the mayor and the mayor's wife across multiple threads.
Mamdani, whose tenure has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum, has faced pointed questions about his tax policies driving wealth out of the city and about whether his governing philosophy aligns more with socialism than mainstream Democratic politics. The kind of supporter Bhat represents, a medical professional with deep financial ties to city infrastructure who spends his off-hours posting racial slurs and antisemitic conspiracy theories, raises uncomfortable questions about the political ecosystem Mamdani has cultivated.
Atlantic Dialysis Management Services is no small operation. In July 2012, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation announced a nine-year agreement to outsource dialysis services to Atlantic Dialysis at a cost of up to $83 million. The company's website states its clinic at Elmhurst Hospital "has been a part of the ADMS family since it opened in 2005."
The company also received up to $1 million in coronavirus pandemic relief loans, according to PPP records.
The corporate history carries its own baggage. Atlantic Dialysis is co-owned by Jodumutt Ganesh Bhat, Pravin Bhat's father, and Nirmal Mattoo. The two co-founded Mattoo & Bhat Medical Associates, P.C., a nephrology practice that in 2015 was required to pay a $1.15 million fine for Medicare fraud, according to the Department of Justice. That same year, the HHC outsourcing deal with Atlantic Dialysis was partially unwound, in part because of the Medicare fraud scandal.
Before joining Atlantic Dialysis in May 2019, Pravin Bhat himself worked for HHC as a physician specialist, according to city public records.
When contacted by the Free Beacon, NYC Health + Hospitals issued a carefully worded statement distancing itself from both Bhat and Atlantic Dialysis.
"NYC Health + Hospitals stands for high-quality care, including for its dialysis patients. This company is not a vendor and has no contracts with the City's health care system, and this person is not employed here at NYC Health + Hospitals."
That statement is technically true, the original nine-year contract was partially unwound years ago. But the Free Beacon found that Atlantic Dialysis still operates a facility inside Elmhurst Hospital, a city medical center, and that Elmhurst refers outpatients to Atlantic for dialysis services. The company's own website confirms the Elmhurst clinic has been part of its network since 2005.
So the city says it has no contract with Atlantic Dialysis. Atlantic Dialysis says it runs a clinic inside a city hospital. Elmhurst Hospital sends patients there. The public is left to sort out what "no relationship" actually means when a company with a Medicare fraud history operates inside your public hospital and its medical director spends his spare time posting racial slurs.
The broader pattern around Mamdani's New York City continues to raise questions. The mayor has defended illegal immigrants while ICE arrests convicted criminals, and commentators have openly questioned whether his ideological commitments serve the city or a political movement. The kind of donor and defender Bhat represents, a man who directs a clinic handling vulnerable kidney patients while calling Jewish critics disease-ridden and Black Republicans racial slurs, does not reflect well on the political orbit that embraces him.
As of publication, no legal or employment consequences have been reported for Bhat. His X account is locked. Atlantic Dialysis has not commented. The city has distanced itself on paper while patients continue to be referred to the company's Elmhurst facility.
The Free Beacon's investigation identified the account through Bhat's own photo and self-description. He made no serious effort to hide. That level of brazenness suggests he expected no accountability, and so far, he has been right.
Critics like Bill Maher have pressed the case that Mamdani's political project attracts a particular kind of supporter. Bhat's account, a trail of slurs, conspiracy theories, and crude sexual attacks posted under his own face, offers a data point that is hard to explain away.
When a doctor who treats the city's most vulnerable patients spends his evenings posting racial slurs and antisemitic bile, the question is not whether he has a right to his opinions. The question is whether anyone in a position of authority will care enough to act.
