RxDoctor Payments Data

Iliana Cardona Orellana, MD

Nephrology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1538475983

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,464in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $23.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$457
  • AstraZeneca$409
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$382
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$333
  • Novartis$237
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$206
  • plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,34897%
  • Education$1163%

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

$3,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$177,770
Medicare patients
340
Services billed
1,763

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 Oxyhydroxide80$173,860
MounjaroTirzepatide50$53,444
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$41,061
AuryxiaFerric Citrate11$26,524
Sevelamer Carbonate72$16,253
Calcium Acetate23$2,129
Hydralazine Hcl32$543
Nifedipine ErNifedipine17$472
Allopurinol67$470
Pentoxifylline14$366
Furosemide47$335
Torsemide18$332
Calcitriol18$282
Famotidine11$232
Losartan Potassium27$224

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$70$173,86080 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$78$53,44450 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$206$26,52411 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$92$20516 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 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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