RxDoctor Payments Data

Milap Pokharel, MD

Nephrology · Tucson, AZNPI 1336349463

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,409in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 247 payments — averaging $17.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$700
  • Bayer$627
  • Amgen$605
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$474
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$255
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$241
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,99791%
  • Education$4129%

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

$4,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$198,097
Medicare patients
423
Services billed
2,090

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
RayaldeeCalcifediol76$92,421
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol43$54,197
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide21$50,679
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$23,909
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex26$19,180
KerendiaFinerenone14$17,509
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate22$16,390
Sevelamer Carbonate72$11,343
EliquisApixaban12$6,920
Calcitriol156$3,258
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate19$2,782
Midodrine Hcl16$1,055
Losartan Potassium111$970
Valsartan11$728
Amlodipine Besylate115$700

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
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$474$92,42176 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$700$70,58765 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$235$50,67921 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$241$23,90919 claims
BayerKerendia$627$17,50914 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 65th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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