RxDoctor Payments Data

David Hakas, MD

Nephrology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1578581930

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,223in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $14.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$263
  • AstraZeneca$255
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$151
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$122
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$102
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$72
  • plus $258 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,08389%
  • Education$14011%

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

$1,223 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$176,080
Medicare patients
265
Services billed
847

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 Propanediol31$40,257
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide18$38,221
EliquisApixaban28$31,422
Sevelamer Carbonate87$22,613
ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho43$12,915
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate15$11,013
Cinacalcet Hcl22$7,626
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.134$5,667
Calcium Acetate98$5,581
Bumetanide51$1,943
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate20$1,760
Nifedipine ErNifedipine33$1,624
Valsartan43$1,324
Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate22$1,096
Midodrine Hcl51$949

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$255$51,27046 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$151$38,22118 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$18$1,32443 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 60th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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