RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Shye, MD

Nephrology · Burbank, CANPI 1639469588

Payments from drug & device makers

$332in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $41.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Baxter Healthcare$155
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$89
  • AstraZeneca$50
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$38

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$18355%
  • Education$14945%

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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25

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

$332 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$239,886
Medicare patients
346
Services billed
1,835

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate59$76,643
XphozahTenapanor Hcl16$69,075
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol49$61,453
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$42,040
Sevelamer Carbonate85$23,489
KerendiaFinerenone23$23,079
EliquisApixaban15$18,023
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$16,283
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$15,198
Tacrolimus43$5,501
Nifedipine ErNifedipine95$4,116
Midodrine Hcl23$2,288
Bumetanide46$2,204
Mycophenolate Mofetil17$2,111
Nebivolol Hcl12$2,004

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
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$50$138,096108 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$38$42,04043 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 25th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

Other nephrology in Burbank

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