Babatunde Fariyike, MD
Nephrology · Thomaston, GANPI 1265436760
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 341 payments — averaging $25.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$3K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Novo Nordisk$702
- Bayer$465
- Lilly USA, LLC$377
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$297
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,44017%
- Food & beverage$6,73479%
- Education$3614%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 58 | $2,804 |
| AstraZeneca | 82 | $1,591 |
| Novo Nordisk | 35 | $702 |
| Bayer | 22 | $465 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $377 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 17 | $297 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 10 | $253 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 12 | $246 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $213 |
| Stryker | 3 | $192 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 8 | $189 |
| Merck | 7 | $133 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $124 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 13 | $114 |
| GSK | 7 | $112 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 7 | $107 |
| Vantive US Healthcare LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $68 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $46 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Cormedix Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $21 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- KRYSTEXXA$1,566
- MAKO$131
- Renal - PD$105
How this compares
$8,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 393 | $294,428 |
| XphozahTenapanor Hcl | 29 | $131,556 |
| AuryxiaFerric Citrate | 76 | $124,655 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 137 | $111,364 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 70 | $82,262 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 72 | $60,398 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 49 | $48,310 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 39 | $40,432 |
| ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1 | 152 | $28,827 |
| ProcritEpoetin Alfa | 20 | $18,367 |
| DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol | 39 | $16,922 |
| RayaldeeCalcifediol | 12 | $14,172 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 17 | $13,559 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 18 | $12,693 |
| Calcium Acetate | 97 | $7,186 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma | $1,591 | $307,122411 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $213 | $124,922154 claims |
| Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia | $246 | $124,65576 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $702 | $82,26270 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $465 | $60,39872 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $133 | $48,31049 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $377 | $40,43239 claims |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee | $297 | $14,17212 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 80th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.
Other nephrology in Thomaston
- James TumlinLawrenceville$19.8M
- Chinedu NwekeAcworth$3.9M
- Vinayak RamanathLagrange$3.1M
- Harold HubertAugusta$2.8M
- Tamorie SmithColumbus$1.9M
- Barton BrezinaAugusta$1.5M
- Frederic Rahbari OskouiAtlanta$1.5M
- Rajeev ChauhanColumbus$1.1M
- Sagar PanseMacon$1.1M
- Laura MulloyAugusta$891K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.