RxDoctor Payments Data

Jay Patel

Nephrology · Greensboro, NCNPI 1013034727

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $15,949 of the $26,505 with a category attached, or 60.2%. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bayer at 58.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,810 and has fallen 86.7% since, to $1,975 in 2025. Among nephrology clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$26,505in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 510 payments — averaging $51.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$16K
  • Amgen$3K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$1K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$872
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$709
  • plus $4K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$260%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$15,94960%
  • Travel & lodging$580%
  • Food & beverage$10,14138%
  • Education$3321%

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

$26,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$182,079
Medicare patients
296
Services billed
1,511

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
JynarqueTolvaptan13$246,071
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol126$89,827
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide15$44,744
AuryxiaFerric Citrate14$30,308
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex23$19,624
KerendiaFinerenone16$17,914
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$15,519
Sevelamer Carbonate37$6,988
Cinacalcet Hcl18$1,340
Torsemide47$1,275
Furosemide186$1,263
Calcitriol83$1,089
Olmesartan Medoxomil101$1,086
Amlodipine Besylate114$1,057
Allopurinol76$861

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
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Jynarque$872$246,07113 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,664$89,827126 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$179$44,74415 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$39$30,30814 claims
BayerKerendia$15,540$17,91416 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$47$15,51927 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 90th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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