RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeremy Marcus, MD

Nephrology · Washington, DCNPI 1528175114

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,250 of the $1,391 with a category attached, or 89.9%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $499, more than ten times the $20 reported in 2020.

$1,391in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $23.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$331
  • Amgen$175
  • Novo Nordisk$162
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$142
  • Novartis$137
  • AstraZeneca$81
  • plus $363 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,25090%
  • Education$14110%

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.

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

$1,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 62 nephrology providers in District of Columbia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$387,911
Medicare patients
677
Services billed
2,767

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol108$133,565
JardianceEmpagliflozin88$133,310
AlyqTadalafil13$44,545
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate34$33,571
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex28$31,476
OzempicSemaglutide11$14,884
Sevelamer Carbonate39$12,901
ProcritEpoetin Alfa11$7,921
GemtesaVibegron12$6,727
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate28$3,898
Tacrolimus20$2,312
Chlorthalidone79$2,142
Nifedipine ErNifedipine45$1,842
Calcium Acetate21$1,588
Irbesartan44$1,584

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$81$167,137142 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$35$133,31088 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$162$14,88411 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 62 nephrology providers in District of Columbia.

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