RxDoctor Payments Data

Amol Patel, DO

Nephrology · Seattle, WANPI 1346776770

Payments from drug & device makers

$535in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $48.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$136
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$125
  • Bayer$123
  • Amgen$64
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$50
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$25
  • plus $13 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$535100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AstraZeneca(2 entities)2$136
Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.1$125
Bayer1$123
Amgen3$64
Akebia Therapeutics Inc2$50
Ardelyx, Inc.1$25
Merck1$13

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

$535 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 237 nephrology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$242,072
Medicare patients
591
Services billed
2,199

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 Propanediol23$20,547
Furosemide22$293
Losartan Potassium23$131
Amlodipine Besylate12$86
Atorvastatin Calcium11$21

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$136$20,54723 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 237 nephrology providers in Washington.

Other nephrology in Seattle

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