RxDoctor Payments Data

Kostas Papamarkakis, MD

Nephrology · Springfield, MANPI 1699160234

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,160in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $52.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$257
  • GSK$257
  • Medtronic$132
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$128
  • Novo Nordisk$116
  • Amgen$109
  • plus $161 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$19016%
  • Food & beverage$60852%
  • Education$36231%

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

$1,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 339 nephrology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$279,483
Medicare patients
511
Services billed
2,117

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin74$82,542
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide17$45,852
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$36,094
EliquisApixaban32$28,655
ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho49$10,565
Sevelamer Carbonate65$9,313
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate25$8,653
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate23$4,470
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.119$2,268
ClinisolParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.524$2,210
Nifedipine ErNifedipine31$1,871
Torsemide73$1,484
Spironolactone48$835
Calcium Acetate19$830
Tamsulosin Hcl34$736

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$257$44,74869 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 60th percentile of 339 nephrology providers in Massachusetts.

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