RxDoctor Payments Data

Gregory Pisel, MD

Nephrology · Hickory, NCNPI 1528065604

Payments from drug & device makers

$853in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $17.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$154
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$141
  • AstraZeneca$111
  • Novartis$84
  • Lilly USA, LLC$78
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$72
  • plus $213 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$80594%
  • Education$476%

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

$853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$322,542
Medicare patients
535
Services billed
2,410

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide32$115,745
AuryxiaFerric Citrate35$71,636
XphozahTenapanor Hcl11$68,817
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol67$42,397
Sevelamer Carbonate111$22,260
Lanthanum Carbonate13$9,801
Sevelamer Hcl12$5,778
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex12$3,896
Calcium Acetate33$3,506
Hydralazine Hcl159$1,924
Labetalol Hcl27$1,239
Dapsone16$1,214
Losartan Potassium134$1,077
Gentamicin Sulfate23$772
Potassium Chloride44$529

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$37$115,74532 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$50$71,63635 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$111$42,39767 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 40th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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