RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrea Linares, DO

Nephrology · Weston, FLNPI 1396240396

Payments from drug & device makers

$281in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $28.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$125
  • AstraZeneca$46
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$24
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$20
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$19
  • Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$16
  • plus $31 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$26393%
  • Education$197%

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

19
20
21
22
25

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.

How this compares

$281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$93,884
Medicare patients
314
Services billed
921

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 Propanediol27$27,246
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$18,091
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$17,572
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$12,689
Nifedipine ErNifedipine137$3,548
Sevelamer Carbonate13$2,049
Losartan Potassium150$1,566
Calcium Acetate26$1,346
Valsartan21$753
Torsemide31$667
Amlodipine Besylate115$643
Hydralazine Hcl38$618
Olmesartan Medoxomil26$506
Midodrine Hcl12$358
Lisinopril48$315

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$46$44,81844 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$19$18,09123 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 15th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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