RxDoctor Payments Data

Barbara Labban

Nephrology · Altoona, PANPI 1629228085

Payments from drug & device makers

$430in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $26.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$144
  • AstraZeneca$71
  • Bayer$58
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$25
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$23
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$23
  • plus $86 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$40594%
  • Education$256%

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

$430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,248
Medicare patients
146
Services billed
370

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 Oxyhydroxide77$258,689
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol111$97,884
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate103$89,489
AuryxiaFerric Citrate33$81,640
Lanthanum Carbonate26$34,880
Sevelamer Carbonate102$22,169
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$13,813
Cinacalcet Hcl25$8,100
Potassium Chloride149$4,112
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate40$3,339
Calcitriol248$3,192
Amlodipine Besylate381$3,132
Midodrine Hcl32$2,715
Losartan Potassium228$2,681
Calcium Acetate29$2,443

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$23$258,68977 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$71$187,373214 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$25$81,64033 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 40th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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