Ali Baltaji
Nephrology · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1912559691
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $349 of the $405 with a category attached, or 86.2%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $239, more than ten times the $18 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for nephrology clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $1,122.
Across 17 payments — averaging $23.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$81
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$60
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$56
- Novartis$50
- Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$33
- Amgen$28
- plus $97 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$34986%
- Education$5614%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Novartis | 2 | $50 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 165 nephrology providers in Kentucky.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Bowling Green
- Julie IsaacBowling Green$4K
- Jennifer ShuemakerBowling Green$3K
- Danny WooLouisville$427K
- Dawn CasterLouisville$193K
- Javier Neyra LozanoLexington$181K
- Kurt SowersHazard$119K
- Nizar AttallahLouisville$113K
- Ravinder BhagrathPikeville$84K
- Shafic Abdul Wahab El HindiLouisville$45K
- George AronoffLouisville$26K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.