RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Benjamin, MD

Nephrology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1265420368

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,350in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $575.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$9K
  • Baxter Healthcare$1K
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$39
  • GSK$37
  • Novo Nordisk$24
  • Amgen$18
  • plus $29 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$86963%
  • Food & beverage$50137%

General payments by program year

19
22
25

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

$10,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,069
Medicare patients
132
Services billed
391

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 Oxyhydroxide23$52,412
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol33$37,081
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$31,963
Lanthanum Carbonate11$7,018
ProcritEpoetin Alfa21$6,952
RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx24$6,532
Calcium Acetate87$3,060
Sevelamer Carbonate45$2,764
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate21$1,296
Chlorthalidone69$633
Losartan Potassium64$580
Furosemide74$402
Bumetanide14$392
Valsartan11$211
Lisinopril-HydrochlorothiazideLisinopril/Hydrochlorothiazide13$208

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$14$31,96322 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 85th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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