RxDoctor Payments Data

Corey Ball, MD

Nephrology · Tyler, TXNPI 1346433216

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,720in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $18.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$483
  • Amgen$421
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$120
  • GSK$78
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$70
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$61
  • plus $488 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,69098%
  • Education$302%

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

$1,720 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$225,885
Medicare patients
681
Services billed
3,499

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 Propanediol100$75,453
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$27,803
AuryxiaFerric Citrate13$14,812
Sevelamer Carbonate43$10,288
Cinacalcet Hcl11$5,169
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$5,097
Calcium Acetate11$1,730
Calcitriol151$1,290
Losartan Potassium144$1,170
Nifedipine ErNifedipine36$1,064
Bumetanide25$1,061
Doxazosin Mesylate72$994
Potassium Chloride36$994
Lisinopril103$813
Tamsulosin Hcl67$760

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$483$80,550114 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$35$27,80343 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$70$14,81213 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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