RxDoctor Payments Data

Himabindu Valluru, MD

Nephrology · Abilene, TXNPI 1558672311

Payments from drug & device makers

$546in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $38.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$190
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$181
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$108
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$24
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$23
  • Biocon Biologics Inc$20

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$52997%
  • Education$173%

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

23
24
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AstraZeneca(2 entities)6$190
Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.3$181
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.2$108
Ardelyx, Inc.1$24
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.1$23
Biocon Biologics Inc1$20

How this compares

$546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$453,290
Medicare patients
688
Services billed
3,160

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 Oxyhydroxide29$118,863
Sevelamer Carbonate126$29,730
JardianceEmpagliflozin37$24,016
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$23,786
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol26$14,929
Calcium Acetate69$5,448
Bumetanide87$3,925
Potassium Chloride274$3,240
Hydralazine Hcl345$2,762
Amlodipine Besylate516$2,495
Metolazone79$1,868
Losartan Potassium392$1,831
Midodrine Hcl41$1,576
Nifedipine ErNifedipine80$1,546
Furosemide356$1,272

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$23$118,86329 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$190$38,71440 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 25th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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