RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Russo, MD

Nephrology · Naples, FLNPI 1316934326

Payments from drug & device makers

$49,504in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 531 payments — averaging $93.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$20K
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$10K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$5K
  • Baxter Healthcare$4K
  • Novartis$2K
  • Bayer$1K
  • plus $8K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5,52011%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$23,20047%
  • Travel & lodging$5,98512%
  • Food & beverage$14,69230%
  • Education$1060%

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

$49,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$415,774
Medicare patients
980
Services billed
2,680

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 Propanediol33$42,463
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex36$30,048
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate18$26,477
Sevelamer Carbonate109$19,613
Calcium Acetate64$4,726
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb11$3,668
Nifedipine ErNifedipine54$3,006
Losartan Potassium245$2,567
Calcitriol113$2,124
Potassium Chloride24$1,024
Tamsulosin Hcl44$811
Mycophenolate Mofetil11$795
Bumetanide45$739
Labetalol Hcl25$717
Allopurinol100$688

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$916$68,93951 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 85th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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