Bhasker Mehta, MD
Nephrology · Arlington, TXNPI 1790787612
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,268 of the $10,387 with a category attached, or 70.0%. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 26.1% of the total.
Across 276 payments — averaging $37.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Bayer$787
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$554
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$530
- plus $3K from 25 others
Across 733 payments — averaging $3041.09 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$930K
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$917K
- Gilead$104K
- Vertex$68K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$45K
- Pfizer$42K
- plus $124K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,06630%
- Food & beverage$7,26870%
- Education$531%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 51 | $2,714 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 8 | $1,372 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 18 | $1,203 |
| Bayer | 26 | $787 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 28 | $554 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 28 | $530 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 11 | $457 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 15 | $423 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 12 | $319 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $272 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 10 | $216 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $165 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 8 | $164 |
| GSK | 8 | $141 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $138 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $120 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Novartis | 3 | $92 |
| Vertex | 2 | $91 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Rockwell Medical, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$10,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.
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 | 105 | $110,479 |
| RayaldeeCalcifediol | 80 | $103,691 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 37 | $51,314 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 53 | $48,263 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 18 | $29,127 |
| VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex | 19 | $21,559 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 15 | $16,800 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 13 | $13,729 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 29 | $10,729 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 11 | $7,295 |
| Calcium Acetate | 61 | $6,470 |
| ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho | 20 | $5,485 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 23 | $2,149 |
| Torsemide | 60 | $1,544 |
| Carvedilol | 141 | $1,210 |
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 | $2,714 | $110,479105 claims |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee | $554 | $103,69180 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $1,203 | $48,26353 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $120 | $42,85531 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $17 | $16,80015 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $787 | $7,29511 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 85th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.
Other nephrology in Arlington
- Hanna ThomasArlington$67K
- Abdul AbdellatifWebster$2.1M
- German HernandezEl Paso$1.3M
- Ankit MehtaDallas$1.1M
- Biff PalmerDallas$867K
- Gates ColbertDallas$828K
- Sreedhar MandayamHouston$752K
- Luis VelezSan Antonio$505K
- Anand ReddyOdessa$469K
- Christopher KwohHouston$467K
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.