RxDoctor Payments Data

Leonard Gyebi, MD

Nephrology · Atlanta, GANPI 1710160023

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,262in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $19.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$483
  • GT Medical Technologies, Inc$140
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$131
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$104
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$81
  • Amgen$77
  • plus $247 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,08186%
  • Education$18214%

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

$1,262 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$217,686
Medicare patients
223
Services billed
1,322

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 Oxyhydroxide38$101,950
AuryxiaFerric Citrate36$63,755
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.188$13,389
Sevelamer Carbonate42$6,034
Calcium Acetate52$4,675
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$4,544
PlenamineParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.654$3,438
Nifedipine ErNifedipine34$2,114
Hydralazine Hcl73$1,402
Midodrine Hcl23$1,385
Metoprolol Succinate38$1,010
Losartan Potassium82$673
Potassium Chloride30$569
Amlodipine Besylate114$558
Clonidine Hcl67$492

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$131$101,95038 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$483$63,75536 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$20$4,54411 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 40th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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