Itunu Owoyemi, MD
Nephrology · Kansas City, KSNPI 1336580455
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 13 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 10 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $412 and has fallen 74.8% since, to $104 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for nephrology clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $931.
Across 13 payments — averaging $71.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$144
- Bayer$142
- Novo Nordisk$135
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$115
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$104
- Sanofi$100
- plus $192 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$931100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Bayer | 1 | $142 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $135 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $100 |
| Vertex | 1 | $73 |
| Eurofins Viracor, LLC | 1 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $26 |
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
$931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 55 nephrology providers in Kansas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex | 11 | $12,967 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 39 | $3,216 |
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 17 | $2,465 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 62 | $1,251 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 109 | $884 |
| Losartan Potassium | 128 | $821 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 58 | $579 |
| Prednisone | 105 | $469 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 87 | $382 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 75 | $343 |
| Famotidine | 49 | $335 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 39 | $331 |
| Carvedilol | 39 | $191 |
| Chlorthalidone | 15 | $187 |
| Lisinopril | 29 | $168 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Kansas City
- Aditi GuptaKansas City$16K
- Alan YuKansas City$16K
- Ahmad TuffahaKansas City$15K
- Diane CibrikKansas City$12K
- Duncan JohnstoneKansas City$4K
- Amna IlaheKansas City$2K
- Sri YarlagaddaKansas City$1K
- Reem MustafaKansas City$1K
- Andrew StingoKansas City$637
- Venu NairKansas City$436
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.