RxDoctor Payments Data

Beenu Kaw, MD

Nephrology · East Lansing, MINPI 1790700375

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,054in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 150 payments — averaging $27.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$438
  • Amgen$413
  • Abbott$380
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$308
  • Boston Scientific$251
  • Bayer$181
  • plus $2K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,93397%
  • Education$1203%

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

$4,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,976
Medicare patients
231
Services billed
452

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
Cinacalcet Hcl28$8,642
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$7,911
Envarsus XrTacrolimus11$4,049
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium13$2,726
Tacrolimus11$1,261
Nifedipine ErNifedipine27$955
Valsartan28$827
Mycophenolate Mofetil15$754
Bumetanide12$568
Losartan Potassium42$392
Pantoprazole Sodium16$356
Amlodipine Besylate45$317
Spironolactone15$314
Omeprazole19$312
Prednisone84$282

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$102$7,91113 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$46$82728 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 70th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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