RxDoctor Payments Data

Mahdi Yazdany, MD

Nephrology · Torrance, CANPI 1316109911

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,566in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 711 payments — averaging $19.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$1K
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$972
  • Bayer$946
  • plus $6K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13,28798%
  • Education$2792%

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.

How this compares

$13,566 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$536,372
Medicare patients
579
Services billed
3,331

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 Propanediol237$191,673
FilspariSparsentan13$144,864
JardianceEmpagliflozin91$97,726
AuryxiaFerric Citrate40$92,842
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide20$88,689
Tolvaptan47$66,936
ProcritEpoetin Alfa71$63,986
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate76$46,577
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex52$35,515
Sevelamer Carbonate100$25,033
EliquisApixaban18$24,406
KerendiaFinerenone20$22,340
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol30$17,060
RybelsusSemaglutide14$14,642
OzempicSemaglutide13$13,222

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$1,524$238,250313 claims
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.Filspari$918$144,86413 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$299$97,72691 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$972$92,84240 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$452$88,68920 claims
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.Tolvaptan$36$66,93647 claims
Johnson & JohnsonProcrit$183$63,98671 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$209$27,86427 claims
BayerKerendia$946$22,34020 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 80th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

Other nephrology in Torrance

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