RxDoctor Payments Data

Brian Brady, MD

Nephrology · Stanford, CANPI 1902190721

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,129 of the $1,291 with a category attached, or 87.5%. AstraZeneca accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for nephrology clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,018.

$1,291in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $143.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$3
$87,244in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $87,244 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$87K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,12987%
  • Food & beverage$15912%
  • Education$30%

General payments by program year

23
24

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AstraZeneca8$1,288
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.1$3

How this compares

$1,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$127,948
Medicare patients
421
Services billed
838

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol201$193,313
JardianceEmpagliflozin55$43,306
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate23$15,089
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$9,606
Sevelamer Carbonate19$3,582
Eplerenone16$2,145
Chlorthalidone76$1,255
Calcium Acetate14$1,007
Bumetanide17$680
Losartan Potassium71$630
Calcitriol18$531
Furosemide45$413
Olmesartan Medoxomil14$386
Tamsulosin Hcl17$385
Amlodipine Besylate58$339

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$1,288$208,402224 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 50th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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