RxDoctor Payments Data

Aymen Aldujaili, MD

Nephrology · Houston, TXNPI 1073952479

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,347in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $32.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$339
  • Bayer$329
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$260
  • Novartis$131
  • Johnson & Johnson$125
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$54
  • plus $108 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,14785%
  • Education$20015%

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.

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

$1,347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$234,316
Medicare patients
462
Services billed
2,179

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 Oxyhydroxide24$74,045
AuryxiaFerric Citrate38$53,294
OzempicSemaglutide23$24,972
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$24,531
Lanthanum Carbonate18$22,346
Sevelamer Carbonate69$18,497
XphozahTenapanor Hcl11$17,557
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$13,971
ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho37$12,140
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$11,760
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate11$5,793
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl13$2,264
Nifedipine ErNifedipine117$2,174
Febuxostat20$2,059
Midodrine Hcl22$1,639

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$339$38,50254 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 45th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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