RxDoctor Payments Data

Luan Do, MD

Nephrology · la Mesa, CANPI 1538156245

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,552in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $27.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$728
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$301
  • Amgen$243
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$179
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$162
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$160
  • plus $779 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,30990%
  • Education$24310%

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

$2,552 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
$318,194
Medicare patients
479
Services billed
2,698

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
TarpeyoBudesonide11$180,696
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate119$99,671
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex47$47,634
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide17$27,385
AuryxiaFerric Citrate15$20,719
Cinacalcet Hcl64$10,330
Sevelamer Carbonate42$4,060
Nebivolol Hcl24$2,123
Calcitriol112$1,395
Nifedipine ErNifedipine11$1,149
Tacrolimus15$1,130
Calcium Acetate13$767
Losartan Potassium77$692
Valsartan21$605
Lisinopril109$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
AstraZenecaLokelma$728$99,671119 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$129$27,38517 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$31$20,71915 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.

Other nephrology in la Mesa

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