RxDoctor Payments Data

Nizar Eskandar, MD

Nephrology · Hinesville, GANPI 1104833698

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,673in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 535 payments — averaging $19.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$3K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$1K
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$842
  • AstraZeneca$763
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$608
  • plus $4K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$10,16495%
  • Education$5095%

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

$10,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,416,056
Medicare patients
1,570
Services billed
21,399

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
KrystexxaPegloticase60$2,346,088
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol714$748,231
MounjaroTirzepatide198$236,978
OzempicSemaglutide115$184,013
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex98$149,632
JardianceEmpagliflozin132$143,851
Tolvaptan18$119,799
ProcritEpoetin Alfa64$114,513
KerendiaFinerenone59$83,103
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide24$75,588
EliquisApixaban89$67,845
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate48$67,439
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate66$63,194
XphozahTenapanor Hcl15$42,738
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan36$37,732

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
AmgenKrystexxa$2,548$2,346,08860 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$763$815,670762 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$48$236,978198 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$127$203,287129 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$55$170,143152 claims
BayerKerendia$563$83,10359 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$72$75,58824 claims
MerckJanuvia$143$63,19466 claims
NovartisEntresto$244$37,73236 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$13$34,90743 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$842$34,90415 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$171$5,224160 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 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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