RxDoctor Payments Data

Genevieve Sierminski, MD

Nephrology · Flint, MINPI 1376742858

Payments from drug & device makers

$115in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $16.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$79
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$21
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$15

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$115100%

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

19
20
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

$115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$282,050
Medicare patients
577
Services billed
2,015

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
Lanthanum Carbonate13$35,826
Sevelamer Carbonate51$12,919
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$4,756
Hydralazine Hcl132$3,183
Calcium Acetate29$3,121
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate22$2,649
Paricalcitol12$2,459
Potassium Chloride84$2,150
Midodrine Hcl20$2,051
Amlodipine Besylate212$1,928
Bumetanide34$1,785
Metolazone27$1,778
Doxazosin Mesylate74$1,615
Losartan Potassium90$1,492
Calcitriol46$878

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
AstraZenecaLokelma$79$4,75611 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 15th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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