RxDoctor Payments Data

Mosen Istwani, MD

Nephrology · Riverside, CANPI 1043229453

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,497in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $20.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$464
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$271
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$184
  • AstraZeneca$171
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$90
  • Bayer$88
  • plus $227 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,47298%
  • Education$252%

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

$1,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$127,681
Medicare patients
147
Services billed
1,325

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
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex11$10,213
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$7,563
InvokanaCanagliflozin12$6,877
Sevelamer Carbonate30$2,751
Hydralazine Hcl25$485
Nifedipine ErNifedipine16$332
Lisinopril21$147
Furosemide26$142
Losartan Potassium16$113
Glipizide13$95
Amlodipine Besylate30$83
Clonazepam11$22

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$90$7,56311 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 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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