James Drakakis, DO
Nephrology · Mineola, NYNPI 1285915322
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $1400.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$59K
- Bayer$40K
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$6K
- Novartis$32
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$22
- Nxstage Medical, Inc.$15
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4869%
- Education$2231%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 50 | $59,114 |
| Bayer | 21 | $39,690 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $6,184 |
| Novartis | 1 | $32 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$105,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 157 | $161,071 |
| VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex | 50 | $55,149 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 23 | $31,799 |
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $28,185 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 16 | $22,731 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 15 | $11,703 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 16 | $9,421 |
| Febuxostat | 34 | $9,036 |
| Tacrolimus | 31 | $7,553 |
| Eplerenone | 86 | $7,320 |
| Torsemide | 246 | $6,011 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 25 | $5,335 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 15 | $2,787 |
| Losartan Potassium | 183 | $1,746 |
| Valsartan | 62 | $1,618 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Mineola
- Steven FishbaneMineola$1M
- Naveed MasaniMineola$715K
- Binny KoshyMineola$170K
- Joji TokitaNew York$8.4M
- Krzysztof KirylukNew York$6.7M
- David BernardNew York$6M
- Andrew BombackNew York$3.4M
- Pietro CanettaNew York$3.2M
- Robert LynnBronx$2M
- Jodumutt BhatMaspeth$1.5M
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.