RxDoctor Payments Data

Khalid Sindhu, MD

Nephrology · Watertown, NYNPI 1255371712

Payments from drug & device makers

$591in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $21.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$134
  • Edwards Lifesciences$104
  • Amgen$86
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$54
  • Bayer$40
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$37
  • plus $136 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$56195%
  • Education$305%

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

$591 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$293,044
Medicare patients
496
Services billed
6,070

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 Oxyhydroxide36$152,365
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$29,351
EliquisApixaban24$28,198
Cinacalcet Hcl47$16,955
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$15,841
Lanthanum Carbonate13$15,140
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$13,917
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$13,268
TrulicityDulaglutide13$12,504
Sevelamer Carbonate73$10,183
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate79$7,120
Calcitriol263$4,831
Potassium Chloride100$3,332
Febuxostat27$3,053
Torsemide122$2,949

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$134$152,36536 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 45th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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