RxDoctor Payments Data

Moti Samaki, MD

Nephrology · Alpharetta, GANPI 1477995868

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,082in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $15.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$171
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$127
  • Novartis$122
  • Amgen$112
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$105
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$90
  • plus $354 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$93486%
  • Education$14814%

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

$1,082 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,169
Medicare patients
100
Services billed
399

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
Lanthanum Carbonate11$29,273
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate27$18,050
Midodrine Hcl11$3,378
Calcium Acetate32$2,358
Nifedipine ErNifedipine129$2,220
Sevelamer Carbonate14$1,212
Hydralazine Hcl68$1,039
Torsemide11$204
Losartan Potassium38$194
Valsartan12$153
Atorvastatin Calcium13$141
Furosemide32$140
Gabapentin18$124
Carvedilol20$83
Potassium Chloride16$71

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$171$18,05027 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 35th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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