RxDoctor Payments Data

Muhammad Shoaib, MD

Nephrology · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1619540622

Payments from drug & device makers

$779in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $19.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$88
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$85
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$79
  • Amgen$75
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$64
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$56
  • plus $331 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$74796%
  • Education$324%

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.

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

$779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$18,735
Medicare patients
76
Services billed
116

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin145$94,112
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$17,745
Febuxostat12$530
Losartan Potassium47$318
Furosemide25$100
Lisinopril27$87
Amlodipine Besylate12$65
Nifedipine ErNifedipine15$57
Prednisone13$46
Carvedilol14$21

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$56$94,112145 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 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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