RxDoctor Payments Data

Jogy Varghese, MD

Nephrology · Montgomery, ALNPI 1841380284

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,279in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $20.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$310
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$246
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$201
  • Amgen$152
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$142
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$61
  • plus $167 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,279100%

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.

How this compares

$1,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 164 nephrology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$84,486
Medicare patients
155
Services billed
676

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 Propanediol76$68,731
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide12$23,144
AuryxiaFerric Citrate11$17,453
Sevelamer Carbonate64$12,537
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.117$2,317
Labetalol Hcl33$891
Calcitriol21$527
Losartan Potassium25$379
Nifedipine ErNifedipine18$370
Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl13$365
Torsemide18$251
Hydralazine Hcl27$251
Amlodipine Besylate30$228
Carvedilol27$204
Clonidine Hcl17$150

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$51$68,73176 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$201$23,14412 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$310$17,45311 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 35th percentile of 164 nephrology providers in Alabama.

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