RxDoctor Payments Data

Guity Farahmand, MD

Nephrology · Oakland, CANPI 1700017175

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,942in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 276 payments — averaging $21.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$779
  • AstraZeneca$742
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$644
  • Amgen$644
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$603
  • Novo Nordisk$474
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$200%
  • Food & beverage$5,75797%
  • Education$1663%

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

$5,942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$408,507
Medicare patients
551
Services billed
2,818

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
KrystexxaPegloticase26$732,574
JardianceEmpagliflozin146$168,183
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol155$133,661
OzempicSemaglutide79$121,646
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex43$64,773
TrulicityDulaglutide27$57,298
KerendiaFinerenone51$55,250
RybelsusSemaglutide23$54,660
XphozahTenapanor Hcl18$51,772
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide15$50,343
ProcritEpoetin Alfa46$33,274
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate23$29,233
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan20$18,100
Sevelamer Carbonate53$15,474
WegovySemaglutide12$15,260

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
AmgenKrystexxa$644$732,57426 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy$474$191,566114 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$157$168,183146 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$742$162,895178 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$183$57,29827 claims
BayerKerendia$237$55,25051 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$779$50,34315 claims
Johnson & JohnsonProcrit, Invokana$22$40,18358 claims
NovartisEntresto$45$18,10020 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$140$14,59311 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 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

Other nephrology in Oakland

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