RxDoctor Payments Data

Emad Ahmed, MD

Nephrology · Athens, GANPI 1144394883

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,629in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 256 payments — averaging $18.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$610
  • AstraZeneca$476
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$426
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$399
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$352
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$349
  • plus $2K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,24492%
  • Education$3858%

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

$4,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$224,498
Medicare patients
346
Services billed
12,645

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 Propanediol236$168,338
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide33$73,712
RayaldeeCalcifediol49$59,699
AuryxiaFerric Citrate27$44,756
JardianceEmpagliflozin51$39,069
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate38$28,806
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate33$28,108
Sevelamer Carbonate88$25,024
EliquisApixaban33$17,739
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex17$17,623
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.191$15,042
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol18$9,031
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$7,609
Clonidine42$5,872
Calcium Acetate44$3,445

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$476$196,446269 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$107$73,71233 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$399$59,69949 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$352$44,75627 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$128$39,06951 claims
NovartisEntresto$282$7,60918 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 70th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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