RxDoctor Payments Data

Melissa Go, MD

Nephrology · Phoenix, AZNPI 1053305540

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,666in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 232 payments — averaging $20.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$561
  • Amgen$515
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$478
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$352
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$345
  • Bayer$328
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,51697%
  • Education$1503%

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

$4,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$214,577
Medicare patients
464
Services billed
3,542

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 Propanediol89$68,974
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate34$28,622
KerendiaFinerenone18$15,421
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$13,622
Sevelamer Carbonate54$10,583
Cinacalcet Hcl21$5,481
Paricalcitol43$4,589
Hydralazine Hcl99$1,956
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate15$1,684
Calcitriol80$1,668
Calcium Acetate21$1,582
Potassium Chloride63$1,398
Losartan Potassium135$1,341
Amlodipine Besylate206$1,269
Metoprolol Succinate84$1,249

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$561$97,596123 claims
BayerKerendia$328$15,42118 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 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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