RxDoctor Payments Data

Joshua Greenstein, MD

Nephrology · Escondido, CANPI 1104881457

Payments from drug & device makers

$931in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $19.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$219
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$124
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$116
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$115
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$70
  • Bayer$64
  • plus $223 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$79986%
  • Education$13214%

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

$931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$266,165
Medicare patients
473
Services billed
3,045

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate41$42,603
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex20$24,392
AuryxiaFerric Citrate15$20,194
TradjentaLinagliptin26$18,919
Sevelamer Carbonate66$18,148
EliquisApixaban14$15,010
OzempicSemaglutide18$14,246
Cinacalcet Hcl43$12,469
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$8,215
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$6,789
Calcium Acetate69$5,648
ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho33$3,712
Midodrine Hcl40$2,278
Amiodarone Hcl13$1,765
Bumetanide19$1,653

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
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$28$50,81856 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$124$20,19415 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 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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