RxDoctor Payments Data

Nelson Yount, MD

Nephrology · West Monroe, LANPI 1891781522

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,307in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $19.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$962
  • Bayer$524
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$454
  • Amgen$265
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$252
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$232
  • plus $618 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,20197%
  • Education$1063%

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

$3,307 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$124,106
Medicare patients
278
Services billed
935

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 Propanediol142$92,315
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide30$76,642
AuryxiaFerric Citrate14$20,819
KerendiaFinerenone21$11,883
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex11$10,790
Lanthanum Carbonate13$9,687
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate26$8,170
Sevelamer Carbonate43$4,762
Nifedipine ErNifedipine42$1,604
Hydralazine Hcl120$1,589
Doxazosin Mesylate50$1,339
Metolazone22$934
Amlodipine Besylate102$581
Potassium Chloride32$576
Bumetanide17$539

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$962$100,486168 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$454$76,64230 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$252$20,81914 claims
BayerKerendia$524$11,88321 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 55th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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