RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Lebrun, MD

Nephrology · Columbus, MSNPI 1649226317

Payments from drug & device makers

$597in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $17.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$324
  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$91
  • Johnson & Johnson$45
  • Pfizer$43
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$41
  • Boston Scientific$29
  • plus $25 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$57196%
  • Education$264%

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.

How this compares

$597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 105 nephrology providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$267,179
Medicare patients
306
Services billed
6,091

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide103$292,094
AuryxiaFerric Citrate105$216,114
Sevelamer Carbonate212$30,133
Cinacalcet Hcl28$13,550
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$12,316
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$10,906
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$7,108
Calcium Acetate18$2,446
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate21$1,001
Gabapentin118$914
Telmisartan31$899
Nifedipine ErNifedipine29$729
Losartan Potassium150$723
Pantoprazole Sodium55$555
Atorvastatin Calcium67$529

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$324$292,094103 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$41$216,114105 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$23$10,90619 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 30th percentile of 105 nephrology providers in Mississippi.

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