RxDoctor Payments Data

Jamie Dwyer, MD

Nephrology · Nashville, TNNPI 1851303788

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $435,028 of the $460,613 with a category attached, or 94.4%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 41.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $155,238, 3.9 times the $40,242 reported in 2019. Among nephrology clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$460,613in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 186 payments — averaging $2476.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$192K
  • Eli Lilly$83K
  • CSL Behring$36K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$30K
  • Bayer$19K
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$17K
  • plus $84K from 16 others
$118,770in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $733.15 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$87K
  • AstraZeneca$32K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$435,02894%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$8,5122%
  • Travel & lodging$15,2173%
  • Food & beverage$1,8570%

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

$460,613 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 229 nephrology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$19,645
Medicare patients
106
Services billed
258

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
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate11$1,212
Amlodipine Besylate11$142
Lisinopril12$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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