RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Lapinsky, DO

Nephrology · Savannah, GANPI 1306371430

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,069in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 194 payments — averaging $20.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$482
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$445
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$431
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$419
  • Amgen$399
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$334
  • plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,63189%
  • Education$43811%

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.

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

$4,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$281,503
Medicare patients
600
Services billed
4,594

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 Propanediol123$139,787
JardianceEmpagliflozin34$44,097
KerendiaFinerenone31$31,525
OzempicSemaglutide23$28,347
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex24$25,677
Lanthanum Carbonate11$16,291
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$15,412
Calcium Acetate33$3,564
Midodrine Hcl14$2,030
Olmesartan Medoxomil113$1,616
Telmisartan33$1,605
Amlodipine Besylate158$943
Valsartan25$780
Carvedilol91$754
Bumetanide25$748

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$482$155,199140 claims
BayerKerendia$215$31,52531 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$78$78025 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 65th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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