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Moustafa Moustafa, MD

Nephrology · Orangeburg, SCNPI 1356431449

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $417,735 of the $615,928 with a category attached, or 67.8%. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. accounts for 87.7% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $232,449 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $1,074 in 2025. Among nephrology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$615,928in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,201 payments — averaging $512.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$540K
  • AstraZeneca$23K
  • Amgen$23K
  • GSK$8K
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$7K
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$5K
  • plus $9K from 23 others
$2,393,931in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 993 payments — averaging $2410.81 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$522K
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$362K
  • Genentech, Inc.$273K
  • AstraZeneca$239K
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$183K
  • Bayer$175K
  • plus $640K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,0851%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$417,73568%
  • Travel & lodging$167,71227%
  • Food & beverage$22,1834%
  • Education$2130%

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

$615,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 180 nephrology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$275,566
Medicare patients
296
Services billed
16,119

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide182$440,828
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol212$161,778
XphozahTenapanor Hcl21$123,551
RayaldeeCalcifediol34$43,011
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate43$36,601
KerendiaFinerenone41$31,586
Sevelamer Carbonate175$25,470
AuryxiaFerric Citrate25$24,873
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex25$23,812
Lanthanum Carbonate16$19,307
FosrenolLanthanum Carbonate12$16,148
Cinacalcet Hcl16$5,502
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$5,364
Calcitriol143$3,313
Nifedipine ErNifedipine171$3,286

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$540,110$440,828182 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$23,466$198,379255 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$204$43,01134 claims
BayerKerendia$298$31,58641 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$6,893$24,87325 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 95th percentile of 180 nephrology providers in South Carolina.

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