RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Fang, MD

Nephrology · Downey, CANPI 1154338580

Payments from drug & device makers

$117,078in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $2926.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$117K
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$171
  • Amgen$107
  • Bayer$17

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$295100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Akebia Therapeutics Inc10$116,783
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.22$171
Amgen(2 entities)7$107
Bayer1$17

How this compares

$117,078 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,964
Medicare patients
100
Services billed
345

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
JynarqueTolvaptan23$427,263
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol102$57,271
KerendiaFinerenone51$34,625
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol37$18,389
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$9,878
Clonidine12$690
Hydralazine Hcl61$493
Losartan Potassium29$233
Amlodipine Besylate50$216
Atorvastatin Calcium27$201
Clonidine Hcl24$122
Furosemide31$106
Allopurinol18$89
Metoprolol Tartrate16$64
Ciprofloxacin Hcl19$50

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
BayerKerendia$17$34,62551 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 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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