RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Liong, MD

Nephrology · McAllen, TXNPI 1346422078

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $23.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$1K
  • AstraZeneca$836
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$207
  • Medtronic$142
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$117
  • Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$113
  • plus $523 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,13297%
  • Education$1103%

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

$3,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$183,457
Medicare patients
245
Services billed
1,089

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
AuryxiaFerric Citrate278$690,874
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide77$175,924
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate82$66,204
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex52$62,142
Sevelamer Carbonate312$52,694
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol45$29,772
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate17$28,376
Lanthanum Carbonate28$21,775
Nifedipine ErNifedipine83$1,548
Labetalol Hcl11$470
Hydralazine Hcl35$415
Losartan Potassium51$344
Metolazone11$265
Amlodipine Besylate54$180
Potassium Chloride13$153

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
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$1,305$690,874278 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$207$175,92477 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$836$95,976127 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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