RxDoctor Payments Data

Omar Abu-Romeh, MD

Nephrology · Lima, OHNPI 1184805681

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,406in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $20.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$321
  • AstraZeneca$307
  • Bayer$159
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$101
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$88
  • Amgen$75
  • plus $355 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,27991%
  • Education$1279%

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

$1,406 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$74,673
Medicare patients
346
Services billed
761

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 Propanediol114$88,112
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$14,271
EliquisApixaban12$6,969
Bumetanide53$2,466
Sevelamer Carbonate24$1,879
Metolazone29$1,210
Potassium Chloride40$1,201
Hydralazine Hcl47$810
Torsemide15$774
Losartan Potassium93$470
Chlorthalidone23$433
Nifedipine ErNifedipine21$421
Allopurinol26$287
Carvedilol37$274
Klor-Con M20Potassium Chloride14$267

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$307$88,112114 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$24$14,27122 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 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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