RxDoctor Payments Data

Gregory Krastein, MD

Nephrology · Woodland Hills, CANPI 1942358759

Payments from drug & device makers

$690in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $49.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$125
  • AstraZeneca$125
  • Johnson & Johnson$124
  • La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$119
  • Novo Nordisk$115
  • Lilly USA, LLC$49
  • plus $34 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$690100%

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

$690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$12,603
Medicare patients
46
Services billed
88

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin79$30,987
OzempicSemaglutide31$22,966
Sevelamer Carbonate50$11,630
Calcium Acetate36$4,432
Calcitriol130$2,739
Lisinopril117$1,771
Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate16$1,491
Potassium Chloride36$1,466
Losartan Potassium80$1,268
Terazosin Hcl26$1,241
Amlodipine Besylate103$1,072
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate11$906
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl98$758
Spironolactone50$653
Furosemide48$560

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$15$30,98779 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$115$22,96631 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 35th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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