RxDoctor Payments Data

Marco Ramos, MD

Nephrology · Bay City, MINPI 1184799918

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,040in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $19.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Amgen$500
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$415
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$284
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$283
  • Bayer$114
  • plus $378 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,040100%

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

$3,040 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,630
Medicare patients
303
Services billed
1,689

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
KrystexxaPegloticase16$456,351
JynarqueTolvaptan13$251,808
KerendiaFinerenone127$177,180
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol132$172,802
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate20$22,197
Sevelamer Carbonate26$4,804
Allopurinol313$4,092
Calcitriol77$2,221
Febuxostat16$1,991
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate21$1,923
Potassium Chloride66$1,580
Lisinopril84$499
Furosemide67$440
Amlodipine Besylate52$374
Metolazone29$255

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
AmgenKrystexxa$500$456,35116 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Jynarque$283$251,80813 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$1,067$194,999152 claims
BayerKerendia$114$177,180127 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 65th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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