RxDoctor Payments Data

Indu Sharma, MD

Nephrology · Neptune, NJNPI 1982692265

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,287in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $17.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$699
  • Johnson & Johnson$629
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$272
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$180
  • Incyte Corporation$128
  • Octapharma USA, Inc.$103
  • plus $276 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,95385%
  • Education$33415%

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

$2,287 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 413 nephrology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$538,046
Medicare patients
889
Services billed
4,504

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate33$21,627
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$17,503
AuryxiaFerric Citrate11$13,698
Cinacalcet Hcl19$9,939
SensiparCinacalcet Hcl11$8,411
Sevelamer Carbonate39$8,210
Doxazosin Mesylate295$4,859
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate29$3,154
Amlodipine Besylate236$1,972
Potassium Chloride64$1,576
Midodrine Hcl11$1,397
Losartan Potassium127$1,280
Allopurinol115$1,208
Nebivolol Hcl27$1,203
Metoprolol Succinate71$1,199

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
AstraZenecaLokelma$76$21,62733 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$25$13,69811 claims
AmgenSensipar$29$8,41111 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 65th percentile of 413 nephrology providers in New Jersey.

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