RxDoctor Payments Data

Mandeep Samra, MD

Nephrology · Allentown, PANPI 1184913865

Payments from drug & device makers

$853in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $18.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$282
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$128
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$107
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$97
  • Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$30
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$30
  • plus $179 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$83097%
  • Education$223%

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

$853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,967
Medicare patients
501
Services billed
2,463

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate13$6,247
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb15$5,348
Sevelamer Carbonate16$3,198
Nifedipine ErNifedipine15$1,003
Torsemide29$562
Calcium Acetate12$555
Amlodipine Besylate46$468
Chlorthalidone34$442
Lisinopril55$397
Losartan Potassium54$337
Furosemide41$244
Spironolactone15$244
Carvedilol21$162
Omeprazole13$126
Hydrochlorothiazide13$38

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$13$6,24713 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 50th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.

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