RxDoctor Payments Data

Chizoba Obi, MD

Nephrology · Bryan, TXNPI 1376708222

Payments from drug & device makers

$543in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $31.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$216
  • AstraZeneca$210
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$77
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$14
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$14
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$46986%
  • Education$7414%

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

$543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$107,292
Medicare patients
138
Services billed
1,047

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 Propanediol146$120,289
KerendiaFinerenone76$56,096
Nifedipine ErNifedipine134$2,370
Sevelamer Carbonate12$1,082
Metolazone22$595
Labetalol Hcl45$590
Torsemide41$536
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate60$523
Spironolactone70$504
Isosorbide Dinitrate24$502
Lisinopril61$353
Amlodipine Besylate55$333
Metoprolol Succinate27$252
Furosemide18$158
Hydralazine Hcl23$129

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$210$120,289146 claims
BayerKerendia$216$56,09676 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 25th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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