RxDoctor Payments Data

Ankita Gandhir, MD

Nephrology · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1720354277

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,173in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $22.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$525
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$473
  • AstraZeneca$462
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$322
  • Novartis$184
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$149
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,02095%
  • Education$1535%

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

$3,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$82,515
Medicare patients
216
Services billed
1,078

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 Propanediol91$109,790
JardianceEmpagliflozin74$85,751
KerendiaFinerenone34$53,069
ProcritEpoetin Alfa11$33,311
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$19,667
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$12,966
Sevelamer Carbonate17$6,095
Calcitriol255$5,969
Losartan Potassium203$2,162
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate12$1,372
Olmesartan Medoxomil47$1,353
Carvedilol138$1,137
Valsartan43$991
Bumetanide20$838
Chlorthalidone44$633

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$462$129,457102 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$42$85,75174 claims
BayerKerendia$525$53,06934 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$49$99143 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 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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