RxDoctor Payments Data

Kimberly Fremin, MD

Nephrology · Luling, LANPI 1548587876

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,325in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 114 payments — averaging $29.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$573
  • Bayer$378
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$346
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$339
  • Amgen$262
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$251
  • plus $1K from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,18796%
  • Education$1384%

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

$3,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$161,323
Medicare patients
187
Services billed
1,015

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 Oxyhydroxide34$136,836
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol73$88,450
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex49$71,736
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$46,177
XphozahTenapanor Hcl15$45,183
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala11$44,020
KerendiaFinerenone43$42,948
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate32$39,981
Sevelamer Carbonate183$27,759
AuryxiaFerric Citrate12$26,440
MounjaroTirzepatide15$19,614
RayaldeeCalcifediol11$12,626
EliquisApixaban12$8,083
Calcium Acetate25$3,123
Midodrine Hcl36$2,509

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$241$136,83634 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$573$128,431105 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$138$46,17735 claims
BayerKerendia$378$42,94843 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$21$26,44012 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 55th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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