RxDoctor Payments Data

Jorge Vazquez, MD

Nephrology · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1942245295

Payments from drug & device makers

$374in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $23.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$61
  • Amgen$60
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$53
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$50
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$42
  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$29
  • plus $78 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$36297%
  • Education$123%

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

$374 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$167,446
Medicare patients
175
Services billed
1,052

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
AuryxiaFerric Citrate23$69,957
Sevelamer Carbonate183$50,265
JardianceEmpagliflozin50$32,322
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol42$28,055
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate22$16,206
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate23$13,598
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$10,774
Calcium Acetate78$6,679
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog13$2,759
Midodrine Hcl40$1,556
Cinacalcet Hcl13$1,038
Nifedipine ErNifedipine55$926
Fluconazole12$711
Hydralazine Hcl54$670
Furosemide88$408

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
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$53$69,95723 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$17$44,26164 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 20th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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