Has Joachim Ix, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,125 in general payments to Joachim Ix, MD across 34 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joachim Ix, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Joachim Ix, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Joachim Ix, MD

Nephrology · San Diego, CANPI 1720017536

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,586 of the $25,125 with a category attached, or 85.9%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bayer at 52.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,500 and has fallen 90.5% since, to $1,372 in 2025. Among nephrology clinicians in CA 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.

$25,125in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $738.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bayer$13K
AstraZeneca$7K
Akebia Therapeutics Inc$2K
Immedica Pharma US, Inc.$2K
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$730
Astrazeneca UK Limited$490
plus $155 from 2 others

$46,597in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $6656.71 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.

Baxter Healthcare$36K
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$11K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$21,58686%
Travel & lodging$2,2329%
Food & beverage$1,3025%
Education$50%

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
Bayer	18	$13,152
AstraZeneca	6	$6,528
Akebia Therapeutics Inc	2	$2,495
Immedica Pharma US, Inc.	2	$1,575
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$730
Astrazeneca UK Limited	1	$490
Philips North America LLC	1	$150
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$5

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

$25,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$9,473

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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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.

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