RxDoctor Payments Data

Cynthia Salloum, MD

Nephrology · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1407897838

Payments from drug & device makers

$562in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $20.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$117
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$65
  • AstraZeneca$62
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$50
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$48
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$31
  • plus $190 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$55098%
  • Education$122%

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

$562 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
$65,908
Medicare patients
153
Services billed
550

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 Propanediol24$35,695
Sevelamer Carbonate73$34,564
AuryxiaFerric Citrate13$32,792
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$15,438
Calcium Acetate29$4,320
Torsemide83$1,615
Calcitriol45$1,134
Allopurinol81$1,016
Nifedipine ErNifedipine23$489
Metolazone24$407
Promethazine Hcl13$245
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine16$227
Amlodipine Besylate20$166
Losartan Potassium12$150
Hydralazine Hcl16$146

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$62$35,69524 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$65$32,79213 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$20$15,43817 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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