RxDoctor Payments Data

Mikhail Novikov, MD

Nephrology · Okatie, SCNPI 1902855133

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,656in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 123 payments — averaging $21.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$476
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$376
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$316
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$304
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$220
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$134
  • plus $829 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2008%
  • Food & beverage$2,31587%
  • Education$1405%

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

$2,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 180 nephrology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$542,857
Medicare patients
1,179
Services billed
4,750

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 Propanediol98$117,047
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide12$30,874
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate37$29,097
AuryxiaFerric Citrate18$25,558
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex27$17,911
Febuxostat102$14,759
Sevelamer Carbonate38$9,546
Calcitriol360$9,533
EliquisApixaban12$7,659
Losartan Potassium584$6,454
Nifedipine ErNifedipine174$6,155
Allopurinol340$4,825
Nebivolol Hcl34$4,551
Hydralazine Hcl290$4,508
Tamsulosin Hcl232$4,107

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$55$146,144135 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$47$25,55818 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$31$1,59961 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 50th percentile of 180 nephrology providers in South Carolina.

Other nephrology in Okatie

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