RxDoctor Payments Data

Afu Abdul, MD

Nephrology · Cartersville, GANPI 1285834838

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,749in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $18.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$383
  • Bayer$226
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$178
  • Amgen$174
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$140
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$133
  • plus $515 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,65695%
  • Education$925%

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

$1,749 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$340,160
Medicare patients
555
Services billed
9,800

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 Propanediol210$167,461
JardianceEmpagliflozin135$100,405
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide23$75,834
AuryxiaFerric Citrate25$66,077
KerendiaFinerenone67$65,690
Sevelamer Carbonate125$15,973
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$12,487
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$9,463
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$5,564
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb23$5,268
Hydralazine Hcl135$2,708
Torsemide100$2,603
Potassium Chloride108$2,187
Calcitriol168$2,060
Amlodipine Besylate396$1,807

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$383$176,924227 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$16$100,405135 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$178$75,83423 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$114$66,07725 claims
BayerKerendia$226$65,69067 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$20$14614 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 50th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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