RxDoctor Payments Data

Arashdeep Poonia, MD

Nephrology · Santa Maria, CANPI 1417235672

Payments from drug & device makers

$86in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $28.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$54
  • AstraZeneca$18
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$14

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1821%
  • Education$6879%

General payments by program year

20
22
23

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

$86 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$352,330
Medicare patients
429
Services billed
1,426

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 Oxyhydroxide32$89,964
Sevelamer Carbonate144$36,144
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex28$32,355
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$15,449
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol22$12,099
Calcium Acetate58$4,945
Mycophenolate Mofetil24$2,526
Tacrolimus24$1,989
Nifedipine ErNifedipine59$1,964
Hydralazine Hcl163$1,753
Fluconazole58$1,258
Furosemide200$736
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl12$735
Amlodipine Besylate143$678
Calcitriol42$650

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$18$12,09922 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 10th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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