RxDoctor Payments Data

Dimpu Patel, MD

Nephrology · Gainesville, GANPI 1992001523

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,726in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 314 payments — averaging $18.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • AstraZeneca$766
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$575
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$428
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$396
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$395
  • plus $2K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,50796%
  • Education$2194%

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

$5,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$201,074
Medicare patients
556
Services billed
2,241

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
XphozahTenapanor Hcl52$174,776
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol116$96,112
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide27$77,134
JardianceEmpagliflozin86$58,908
KerendiaFinerenone21$23,368
AuryxiaFerric Citrate15$20,913
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate29$19,371
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex16$16,368
Sevelamer Carbonate24$5,130
Calcitriol156$2,562
Torsemide158$2,334
Calcium Acetate24$1,604
Carvedilol205$1,455
Tamsulosin Hcl98$1,189
Losartan Potassium153$1,167

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$766$115,483145 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$208$77,13427 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$89$58,90886 claims
BayerKerendia$364$23,36821 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$180$20,91315 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 75th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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