RxDoctor Payments Data

Mukesh Sinha, MD

Nephrology · Cypress, TXNPI 1679552897

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,407in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 256 payments — averaging $36.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$5K
  • AstraZeneca$700
  • Bayer$560
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$495
  • Amgen$491
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$490
  • plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,20045%
  • Food & beverage$5,02253%
  • Education$1842%

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.

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

$9,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,938
Medicare patients
383
Services billed
2,631

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol91$60,802
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$26,752
RayaldeeCalcifediol21$23,675
KerendiaFinerenone24$17,482
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate13$9,488
Sevelamer Carbonate52$6,024
Nifedipine ErNifedipine41$2,083
Calcium Acetate21$1,320
Torsemide63$1,318
Labetalol Hcl14$580
Doxazosin Mesylate11$402
Potassium Chloride14$381
Losartan Potassium37$376
Metoprolol Succinate11$357
Amlodipine Besylate56$328

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, Lokelma$700$70,291104 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$64$26,75243 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$490$23,67521 claims
BayerKerendia$560$17,48224 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 80th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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