RxDoctor Payments Data

Nawaf Atassi, MD

Nephrology · Kinston, NCNPI 1194727479

Payments from drug & device makers

$601in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $18.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$105
  • Amgen$94
  • AstraZeneca$77
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$56
  • Bayer$54
  • Novartis$53
  • plus $163 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$601100%

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

$601 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$196,295
Medicare patients
322
Services billed
4,731

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 Oxyhydroxide76$198,837
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol89$53,583
AuryxiaFerric Citrate35$52,723
JardianceEmpagliflozin62$48,172
Sevelamer Carbonate84$21,846
Lanthanum Carbonate19$15,658
KerendiaFinerenone17$11,040
Calcium Acetate11$2,269
Calcitriol166$1,970
Clonidine12$1,803
Cinacalcet Hcl14$1,786
Midodrine Hcl15$1,413
Gentamicin Sulfate20$1,385
Hydralazine Hcl159$1,151
Amlodipine Besylate179$1,150

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$56$198,83776 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$77$53,58389 claims
BayerKerendia$54$11,04017 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 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

Other nephrology in Kinston

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