RxDoctor Payments Data

Kyaw Moe, MD

Nephrology · Lakewood, CANPI 1083649735

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,842in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 158 payments — averaging $17.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$530
  • Bayer$468
  • AstraZeneca$346
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$288
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$283
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$159
  • plus $768 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,73096%
  • Education$1124%

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

$2,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$775,254
Medicare patients
862
Services billed
5,423

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol389$361,241
JardianceEmpagliflozin349$338,297
RybelsusSemaglutide225$268,283
KerendiaFinerenone235$214,315
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate137$105,878
ProcritEpoetin Alfa49$98,912
LupkynisVoclosporin13$95,129
XphozahTenapanor Hcl30$89,099
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide26$63,954
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate99$56,511
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex61$43,966
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan33$25,491
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1115$22,512
Sevelamer Carbonate99$19,892
Febuxostat195$18,294

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$346$417,752488 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$159$338,297349 claims
BayerKerendia$468$214,315235 claims
Johnson & JohnsonProcrit$15$98,91249 claims
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.Lupkynis$283$95,12913 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$99$63,95426 claims
NovartisEntresto$53$25,49133 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 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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