RxDoctor Payments Data

Aniruddha Palya, MD

Nephrology · Flint, MINPI 1346485513

Payments from drug & device makers

$405in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $36.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$118
  • Recor Medical Inc$115
  • Sanofi$66
  • Novartis$32
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$27
  • Amgen$25
  • plus $23 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$405100%

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
22
23
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

$405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$222,078
Medicare patients
530
Services billed
1,815

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
MounjaroTirzepatide157$184,506
OzempicSemaglutide161$174,821
JardianceEmpagliflozin74$79,911
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol74$58,172
TrulicityDulaglutide45$56,340
AuryxiaFerric Citrate13$36,836
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate30$32,603
Sevelamer Carbonate63$29,134
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$20,870
ProcritEpoetin Alfa22$16,713
EliquisApixaban21$16,625
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$15,720
Cinacalcet Hcl26$11,680
Nifedipine ErNifedipine210$10,369
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol14$9,841

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
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$7$36,83613 claims
NovartisEntresto$32$15,72015 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 35th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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