RxDoctor Payments Data

Ari Hirsch, MD

Nephrology · Richmond, VANPI 1396952594

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,892in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 271 payments — averaging $21.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$944
  • Amgen$546
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$483
  • AstraZeneca$480
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$446
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$411
  • plus $3K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,18088%
  • Education$71112%

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.

How this compares

$5,892 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$262,281
Medicare patients
675
Services billed
2,950

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
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex35$31,733
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate38$27,611
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$25,905
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$25,867
Sevelamer Carbonate40$11,923
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.144$7,903
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate13$2,117
Midodrine Hcl23$2,018
Bumetanide66$1,804
Clonidine12$1,170
Potassium Chloride43$1,063
Calcium Acetate18$899
Spironolactone79$752
Amlodipine Besylate113$679
Losartan Potassium89$659

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
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$480$53,51665 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$151$25,86726 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 75th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.

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