RxDoctor Payments Data

Adam Berliner, MD

Nephrology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1881666337

Payments from drug & device makers

$379in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $18.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$107
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$65
  • Bayer$62
  • Novo Nordisk$56
  • AstraZeneca$52
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$30
  • plus $7 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$34992%
  • Education$308%

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

$379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 285 nephrology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$319,949
Medicare patients
531
Services billed
1,876

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol43$47,537
AuryxiaFerric Citrate26$36,496
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$29,002
EliquisApixaban24$26,449
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$9,338
Sevelamer Carbonate37$8,305
Nifedipine ErNifedipine47$2,840
Calcium Acetate21$1,551
Chlorthalidone34$849
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate11$723
Telmisartan30$682
Losartan Potassium62$549
Mirtazapine11$478
Calcitriol24$464
Atorvastatin Calcium48$434

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$52$56,87557 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$7$36,49626 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$107$29,00218 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 40th percentile of 285 nephrology providers in Maryland.

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