RxDoctor Payments Data

Edward Sha, MD

Nephrology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1427092477

Payments from drug & device makers

$873in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $17.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$186
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$138
  • Amgen$126
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$98
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$86
  • AstraZeneca$75
  • plus $163 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$873100%

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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24

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

$873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$72,344
Medicare patients
205
Services billed
694

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
RayaldeeCalcifediol47$69,411
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol70$46,173
KerendiaFinerenone53$42,718
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex19$23,402
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$8,820
Sevelamer Carbonate15$2,412
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate31$1,836
Nifedipine ErNifedipine20$1,584
Clonidine14$1,496
Torsemide47$927
Losartan Potassium104$639
Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2)25$383
Allopurinol24$373
Chlorthalidone19$364
Lisinopril40$181

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
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$138$69,41147 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$75$54,99381 claims
BayerKerendia$14$42,71853 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 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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