RxDoctor Payments Data

Naqi Idris, MD

Nephrology · Mesquite, TXNPI 1659562627

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,127in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $21.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$465
  • AstraZeneca$398
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$184
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$167
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$148
  • GSK$128
  • plus $638 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,11299%
  • Education$161%

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

$2,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$224,392
Medicare patients
419
Services billed
9,838

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 Oxyhydroxide19$49,092
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$14,053
Sevelamer Carbonate75$10,297
Cinacalcet Hcl19$7,312
Calcium Acetate19$2,079
Nifedipine ErNifedipine30$1,095
Furosemide104$510
Calcitriol23$387
Tamsulosin Hcl34$328
Ciprofloxacin Hcl35$328
Carvedilol47$299
Metoprolol Succinate18$266
Losartan Potassium41$255
Amlodipine Besylate31$245
Hydralazine Hcl26$230

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$102$49,09219 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$398$14,05317 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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