RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Tourgeman, MD

Nephrology · Lauderdale Lakes, FLNPI 1396732673

Payments from drug & device makers

$288in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $24.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$168
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$61
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$41
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$13
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$4

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4840%
  • Education$7260%

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.

How this compares

$288 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$149,313
Medicare patients
224
Services billed
1,138

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
AuryxiaFerric Citrate32$59,823
JardianceEmpagliflozin62$47,544
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex31$34,405
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide15$27,136
KerendiaFinerenone22$21,942
EliquisApixaban25$20,308
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$15,512
TradjentaLinagliptin22$14,786
Sevelamer Carbonate59$12,380
OzempicSemaglutide13$12,126
Cinacalcet Hcl20$10,994
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate97$9,437
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$7,082
XareltoRivaroxaban11$6,973
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate12$4,950

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
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$4$59,82332 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$13$27,13615 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 15th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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