RxDoctor Payments Data

Elia Saadeh, MD

Nephrology · Austin, TXNPI 1760446702

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,422in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $40.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$401
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$336
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$202
  • Sanofi$122
  • Amgen$113
  • Novartis$64
  • plus $184 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,422100%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$1,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$191,845
Medicare patients
242
Services billed
1,340

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 Propanediol206$197,728
JardianceEmpagliflozin63$60,023
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide17$58,306
KerendiaFinerenone30$32,526
RayaldeeCalcifediol18$23,173
Sevelamer Carbonate45$8,873
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate16$7,054
Telmisartan193$3,657
Tacrolimus18$2,357
Febuxostat20$1,915
Eplerenone34$1,886
Labetalol Hcl53$1,465
Paricalcitol11$1,225
Amlodipine Besylate151$848
Olmesartan Medoxomil24$717

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$401$204,783222 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$34$58,30617 claims
BayerKerendia$28$32,52630 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$15$23,17318 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 45th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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