RxDoctor Payments Data

Fawaz Al-Ejel, MD

Nephrology · Southfield, MINPI 1871567651

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,830in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 375 payments — averaging $20.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Bayer$698
  • Amgen$670
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$550
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$518
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$500
  • plus $3K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,41995%
  • Education$4115%

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

$7,830 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$267,589
Medicare patients
497
Services billed
2,070

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin135$123,185
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol102$86,025
KerendiaFinerenone30$22,865
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate20$17,054
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex18$16,659
Lanthanum Carbonate12$10,951
Cinacalcet Hcl18$9,683
Sevelamer Carbonate22$5,353
Bumetanide99$4,472
Calcitriol239$3,879
Mycophenolate Mofetil29$3,022
Hydralazine Hcl172$2,999
Losartan Potassium193$2,089
Carvedilol135$1,669
Nifedipine ErNifedipine25$1,533

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$232$123,185135 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$1,459$103,079122 claims
BayerKerendia$698$22,86530 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 80th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

Other nephrology in Southfield

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