RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Molini, MD

Nephrology · Hermitage, TNNPI 1093150351

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,198in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $17.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$165
  • AstraZeneca$142
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$116
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$106
  • Amgen$90
  • Biomerieux Inc$70
  • plus $510 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,07690%
  • Education$12210%

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

$1,198 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 229 nephrology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$198,837
Medicare patients
536
Services billed
2,189

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
Thiola EcTiopronin12$61,050
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$42,619
RayaldeeCalcifediol25$37,659
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate23$28,440
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$14,922
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate25$4,949
Sodium ChlorideSodium Chloride 0.45 %75$4,356
Calcitriol224$2,890
Potassium Chloride90$2,425
Calcium Acetate31$1,841
Bumetanide39$1,788
Hydralazine Hcl73$1,581
Allopurinol135$1,324
Torsemide44$1,246
Nifedipine ErNifedipine43$1,155

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$142$71,05963 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$106$37,65925 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 40th percentile of 229 nephrology providers in Tennessee.

Other nephrology in Hermitage

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