RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Chindo, MD

Nephrology · Lake Havasu City, AZNPI 1841785219

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,643in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $22.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$382
  • AstraZeneca$354
  • Novartis$179
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$169
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$129
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$110
  • plus $320 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,60398%
  • Education$402%

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

$1,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$337,750
Medicare patients
658
Services billed
5,775

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 Propanediol158$168,421
KerendiaFinerenone25$39,733
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate28$19,247
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex16$14,743
Cinacalcet Hcl15$8,631
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol13$7,461
Sevelamer Carbonate16$3,747
Allopurinol137$2,663
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate17$1,785
Calcitriol87$1,538
Losartan Potassium129$1,119
Fluconazole26$956
Amlodipine Besylate111$784
Furosemide92$650
Lisinopril110$635

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, Lokelma$354$187,668186 claims
BayerKerendia$73$39,73325 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 40th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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