RxDoctor Payments Data

Avinash Ghimire, MD

Nephrology · Bastrop, TXNPI 1972662260

Payments from drug & device makers

$290in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $20.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$69
  • Amgen$55
  • AstraZeneca$37
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$31
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$27
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$23
  • plus $48 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$290100%

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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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

$290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$133,791
Medicare patients
193
Services billed
1,069

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 Oxyhydroxide36$108,078
XphozahTenapanor Hcl36$103,231
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol70$63,764
AuryxiaFerric Citrate15$54,927
Sevelamer Carbonate93$19,902
Lanthanum Carbonate11$17,270
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate13$11,314
ClinisolParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.522$3,477
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate25$2,227
Olmesartan Medoxomil28$2,020
Hydralazine Hcl96$1,267
Bumetanide13$876
Losartan Potassium115$856
Midodrine Hcl14$826
Nifedipine ErNifedipine11$819

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$37$75,07783 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$10$54,92715 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$19$52823 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 15th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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