RxDoctor Payments Data

Carmen Ortiz Butcher, MD

Nephrology · Key Biscayne, FLNPI 1144321829

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,349in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $179.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$6K
  • GSK$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$502
  • Bayer$443
  • AstraZeneca$100
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$70
  • plus $140 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,39298%
  • Education$272%

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

$9,349 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$101,703
Medicare patients
185
Services billed
1,021

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
OzempicSemaglutide27$46,864
RybelsusSemaglutide16$24,483
EliquisApixaban18$21,341
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$10,256
Rosuvastatin Calcium75$1,410
Levothyroxine Sodium87$1,176
Pantoprazole Sodium42$858
Nebivolol Hcl11$833
Lisinopril57$682
Irbesartan40$619
Atorvastatin Calcium35$466
Allopurinol45$418
Metoprolol Succinate30$408
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil39$401
Simvastatin17$399

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$502$71,34643 claims
PfizerEliquis$49$21,34118 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 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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