RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Lotfi, MD

Nephrology · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1811994296

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,743in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $68.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$6K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$386
  • Amgen$382
  • Medtronic$365
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$329
  • Novo Nordisk$295
  • plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1154%
  • Food & beverage$3,13896%

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

$8,743 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$562,943
Medicare patients
584
Services billed
4,247

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
OzempicSemaglutide387$408,331
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol369$293,656
JardianceEmpagliflozin282$243,461
MounjaroTirzepatide102$108,234
RybelsusSemaglutide66$93,080
KerendiaFinerenone46$48,379
LinzessLinaclotide65$44,196
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate24$22,613
EliquisApixaban21$21,188
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan13$19,122
Cinacalcet Hcl50$17,125
WegovySemaglutide11$14,546
Sevelamer Carbonate69$14,495
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol21$8,780
Calcium Acetate72$6,657

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy$295$515,957464 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$274$293,656369 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$243$243,461282 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$103$108,234102 claims
BayerKerendia$150$48,37946 claims
NovartisEntresto$48$19,12213 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 75th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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