RxDoctor Payments Data

Nicholas Rowder, MD

Nephrology · Austin, TXNPI 1942230164

Payments from drug & device makers

$668in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $23.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$106
  • Amgen$99
  • Novartis$92
  • GSK$74
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$53
  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$52
  • plus $193 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$668100%

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

$668 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$213,912
Medicare patients
351
Services billed
2,460

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin110$87,083
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide16$52,642
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$27,543
Sevelamer Carbonate116$25,840
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.152$10,368
Clonidine23$1,851
Calcium Acetate39$1,535
Calcitriol59$879
Tamsulosin Hcl47$865
Midodrine Hcl16$648
Losartan Potassium64$640
Gentamicin Sulfate20$610
Furosemide98$511
Valsartan13$287
Zolpidem Tartrate26$284

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$23$52,64216 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$45$27,54332 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 30th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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