RxDoctor Payments Data

Manuel Lopez, MD

Nephrology · El Paso, TXNPI 1942265533

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,175in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $39.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Bayer$763
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$361
  • AbbVie$323
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$298
  • Sanofi$249
  • plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,13499%
  • Education$411%

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

$5,175 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,905
Medicare patients
113
Services billed
503

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 Propanediol47$29,743
Sevelamer Carbonate89$26,543
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate38$25,940
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$15,211
KerendiaFinerenone19$11,873
Cinacalcet Hcl31$4,458
Potassium Chloride81$1,308
Calcium Acetate13$1,223
Allopurinol270$1,207
Febuxostat19$1,193
Nifedipine ErNifedipine84$1,065
Midodrine Hcl31$932
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate18$928
Megestrol Acetate14$888
Minoxidil15$848

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$1,264$55,68285 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$91$15,21123 claims
BayerKerendia$763$11,87319 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 70th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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