RxDoctor Payments Data

Alexander Vitievsky, MD

Nephrology · Teaneck, NJNPI 1447250303

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,748in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 146 payments — averaging $18.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$416
  • AstraZeneca$281
  • Amgen$249
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$241
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$236
  • Bayer$232
  • plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2258%
  • Food & beverage$2,40087%
  • Education$1234%

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

$2,748 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 413 nephrology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$169,994
Medicare patients
453
Services billed
1,817

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide19$58,822
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex31$26,459
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$20,656
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$17,741
EliquisApixaban14$10,847
Sevelamer Carbonate20$6,891
Carvedilol ErCarvedilol Phosphate12$3,186
Paricalcitol16$3,091
Labetalol Hcl46$1,912
Levothyroxine Sodium35$1,302
Amlodipine Besylate102$1,037
Tamsulosin Hcl61$810
Hydralazine Hcl44$656
Atorvastatin Calcium53$549
Mycophenolate Mofetil17$387

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$195$58,82219 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$281$17,74118 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 65th percentile of 413 nephrology providers in New Jersey.

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