RxDoctor Payments Data

Anthony Rupp, MD

Nephrology · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1154524288

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 24 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $356, 5.3 times the $67 reported in 2019.

$496in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $20.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$64
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$58
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$55
  • Novartis$43
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$37
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$36
  • plus $202 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$496100%

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
24
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

$496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 26 nephrology providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$271,740
Medicare patients
775
Services billed
2,108

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
Calcitriol562$8,686
Potassium Chloride78$2,992
Sevelamer Carbonate20$2,907
Bumetanide15$1,866
Losartan Potassium262$1,842
Amlodipine Besylate180$1,267
Lisinopril178$1,163
Allopurinol108$1,112
Hydralazine Hcl80$1,044
Furosemide154$924
Metoprolol Succinate27$695
Cinacalcet Hcl12$590
Klor-Con M10Potassium Chloride11$516
Calcium Acetate14$415
Clonidine Hcl31$382

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other nephrology in Sioux Falls

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