RxDoctor Payments Data

Alan Friedman, MD

Nephrology · Bronx, NYNPI 1598867285

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,253in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 205 payments — averaging $20.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$780
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$608
  • Amgen$570
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$352
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$275
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$261
  • plus $1K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,232100%
  • Education$210%

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

$4,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$322,094
Medicare patients
353
Services billed
3,519

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$61,530
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide25$60,115
EliquisApixaban49$55,354
Sevelamer Carbonate83$35,960
JardianceEmpagliflozin47$35,037
ProcritEpoetin Alfa14$18,972
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate20$16,047
RybelsusSemaglutide13$11,949
Nifedipine ErNifedipine144$4,806
Mometasone Furoate19$4,032
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$4,005
Telmisartan-AmlodipineTelmisartan/Amlodipine11$3,677
Calcium Acetate32$3,119
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog14$2,496
Tacrolimus16$2,208

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$780$77,57763 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$84$60,11525 claims
PfizerEliquis$59$55,35449 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$261$35,03747 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$88$11,94913 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 70th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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