RxDoctor Payments Data

Kavitha Hubbard, MD

Nephrology · Los Gatos, CANPI 1124058805

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,694in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $20.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$600
  • AstraZeneca$595
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$427
  • Bayer$353
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$299
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$215
  • plus $1K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,680100%
  • Education$140%

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

$3,694 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$642,445
Medicare patients
301
Services billed
39,192

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 Oxyhydroxide15$31,772
KerendiaFinerenone22$27,704
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$16,999
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$7,518
Furosemide216$1,731
Calcitriol149$1,660
Sevelamer Carbonate30$1,572
Bumetanide29$1,110
Losartan Potassium77$938
Febuxostat12$693
Hydralazine Hcl33$425
Amlodipine Besylate67$417
Chlorthalidone18$327
Lisinopril34$293
Atorvastatin Calcium11$238

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$427$31,77215 claims
BayerKerendia$353$27,70422 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$595$16,99915 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$22$7,51814 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 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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