RxDoctor Payments Data

Jolina Pamela Santos, MD

Nephrology · Griffin, GANPI 1033490743

Payments from drug & device makers

$500in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $14.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$114
  • AstraZeneca$113
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$56
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$47
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$34
  • Bayer$33
  • plus $102 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$44990%
  • Education$5110%

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

$500 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$94,823
Medicare patients
192
Services billed
691

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide13$34,902
KerendiaFinerenone36$26,474
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol22$25,536
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$19,122
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$12,839
TradjentaLinagliptin12$6,011
Cinacalcet Hcl18$5,380
Sevelamer Carbonate42$4,550
Calcitriol155$1,707
Nifedipine ErNifedipine49$865
Losartan Potassium43$332
Lisinopril69$322
Olmesartan Medoxomil22$306
Potassium Chloride24$295
Hydralazine Hcl19$232

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$18$34,90213 claims
BayerKerendia$33$26,47436 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$113$25,53622 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 25th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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