RxDoctor Payments Data

Mona Sarbu, MD

Nephrology · Chico, CANPI 1639250855

Payments from drug & device makers

$746in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $53.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$335
  • Abiomed$163
  • AstraZeneca$89
  • Novartis$63
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$38
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$29
  • plus $28 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$608%
  • Food & beverage$67290%
  • Education$142%

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

$746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$280,740
Medicare patients
509
Services billed
2,258

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$17,637
Sevelamer Carbonate69$16,364
Cinacalcet Hcl16$7,350
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$7,224
Calcium Acetate32$4,661
Febuxostat36$4,214
Midodrine Hcl12$3,580
Calcitriol187$2,909
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate28$1,341
Potassium Chloride47$1,292
Nifedipine ErNifedipine35$1,195
Atorvastatin Calcium75$619
Furosemide80$553
Metoprolol Succinate23$428
Amlodipine Besylate56$408

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$89$7,22416 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 40th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

Other nephrology in Chico

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