RxDoctor Payments Data

Adam Sun, MD

Nephrology · Monterey Park, CANPI 1497712715

Payments from drug & device makers

$78,110in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $441.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$74K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$732
  • Amgen$472
  • Bayer$377
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$170
  • plus $833 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$591%
  • Food & beverage$3,95196%
  • Education$1273%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$78,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$234,201
Medicare patients
248
Services billed
968

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 Propanediol419$283,132
KerendiaFinerenone306$235,605
RayaldeeCalcifediol88$123,388
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide62$110,468
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol167$86,328
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate143$78,997
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate38$50,569
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex53$48,720
JardianceEmpagliflozin42$31,962
Sevelamer Carbonate163$26,649
ProcritEpoetin Alfa33$9,571
Febuxostat58$6,350
Calcium Acetate95$6,097
Cinacalcet Hcl14$3,956
RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx12$2,799

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$1,554$362,129562 claims
BayerKerendia$377$235,605306 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$131$123,38888 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$18$110,46862 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$74$31,96242 claims
PfizerRetacrit$59$2,79912 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 85th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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