RxDoctor Payments Data

Amber Sanchez, MD

Nephrology · San Diego, CANPI 1700963907

Payments from drug & device makers

$33,017in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $767.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$13K
  • Terumo BCT, Inc.$10K
  • Argenx US, Inc.$8K
  • Kaneka Medical America LLC$2K
  • Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$230
  • Gilead$57
  • plus $235 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5,75017%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$21,45065%
  • Travel & lodging$4,25613%
  • Food & beverage$1,5505%
  • Education$120%

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

$33,017 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
$95,677
Medicare patients
128
Services billed
727

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate22$16,143
MounjaroTirzepatide12$12,063
Sevelamer Carbonate12$1,660
Calcium Acetate18$1,050
Nifedipine ErNifedipine20$1,012
Bumetanide13$981
Hydroxyzine Hcl12$91
Carvedilol27$74
Atorvastatin Calcium22$65
Gabapentin13$61
Trazodone Hcl11$39
Furosemide14$39
Amlodipine Besylate38$39
Metoprolol Tartrate12$29

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
AstraZenecaLokelma$25$16,14322 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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