RxDoctor Payments Data

Amsalu Erko, MD

Nephrology · Austin, TXNPI 1386703064

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,148in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 205 payments — averaging $25.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$833
  • AstraZeneca$609
  • Bayer$592
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$426
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$340
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$275
  • plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,12199%
  • Education$261%

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

$5,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$189,769
Medicare patients
368
Services billed
1,985

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 Propanediol197$162,357
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate18$18,044
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$14,642
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol15$7,510
Calcium Acetate26$2,935
Sevelamer Carbonate11$2,199
Metolazone33$1,884
Clonidine22$1,794
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl28$1,219
Nifedipine ErNifedipine39$946
Potassium Chloride38$714
Torsemide15$605
Calcitriol40$584
Metoprolol Succinate25$435
Allopurinol31$378

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$609$180,401215 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$101$14,64221 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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