RxDoctor Payments Data

Antoine Azar, MD

Nephrology · Syracuse, NYNPI 1407019730

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,646in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $130.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$3K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$96
  • Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc.$95
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$59
  • Renalytix AI, Inc.$44
  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$35
  • plus $160 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,80077%
  • Travel & lodging$2216%
  • Food & beverage$58216%
  • Education$441%

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

$3,646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$275,488
Medicare patients
815
Services billed
8,175

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide25$65,013
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$19,612
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$18,014
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$13,705
Calcitriol261$3,551
Doxazosin Mesylate107$2,714
Sevelamer Carbonate24$1,877
Allopurinol24$1,849
Calcium Acetate17$1,737
Nifedipine ErNifedipine55$1,200
Torsemide72$1,139
Midodrine Hcl11$921
Potassium Chloride45$486
Lisinopril61$439
Losartan Potassium52$358

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$28$65,01325 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$19$31,71935 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 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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