RxDoctor Payments Data

Aash Bhatt, MD

Nephrology · Kalamazoo, MINPI 1154524338

Payments from drug & device makers

$220in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $13.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$44
  • AstraZeneca$41
  • Boston Scientific$32
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$18
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$18
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$17
  • plus $50 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$20995%
  • Education$105%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,597
Medicare patients
326
Services billed
985

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Thiola EcTiopronin12$63,613
AuryxiaFerric Citrate23$63,423
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide14$59,839
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$48,039
XphozahTenapanor Hcl12$42,846
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate25$11,869
Sevelamer Carbonate97$10,377
Torsemide90$1,786
Nifedipine ErNifedipine51$1,548
Calcium Acetate22$1,340
Chlorthalidone60$1,244
Potassium Chloride21$1,185
Bumetanide22$1,096
Febuxostat20$1,051
Amlodipine Besylate92$964

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$18$59,83914 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$41$11,86925 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 25th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

Other nephrology in Kalamazoo

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