RxDoctor Payments Data

Keyur Patel, MD

Nephrology · Vallejo, CANPI 1942388772

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,082in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $72.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Outset Medical Inc$306
  • AstraZeneca$275
  • Amgen$221
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$188
  • Gilead$28
  • AbbVie$24
  • plus $39 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$15014%
  • Food & beverage$93286%

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

$1,082 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$13,355
Medicare patients
38
Services billed
160

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$33,987
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex32$33,941
Sevelamer Carbonate84$18,906
ProcritEpoetin Alfa17$17,762
AuryxiaFerric Citrate11$14,065
Calcitriol171$3,885
Calcium Acetate27$3,158
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine65$2,078
Terazosin Hcl21$1,438
Hydralazine Hcl55$1,350
Amlodipine Besylate89$1,211
Losartan Potassium78$984
Furosemide43$707
Nifedipine ErNifedipine15$548
Cinacalcet Hcl39$512

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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