RxDoctor Payments Data

Oney Zuniga, MD

Nephrology · Rockville, MDNPI 1689658627

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,064in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 163 payments — averaging $24.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1K
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$517
  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$493
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$294
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$190
  • AstraZeneca$157
  • plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,93797%
  • Education$1283%

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

$4,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 285 nephrology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$296,814
Medicare patients
415
Services billed
2,227

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
EliquisApixaban538$193,777
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala27$113,202
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate113$70,063
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine74$53,604
TrulicityDulaglutide48$38,703
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate23$24,689
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol29$21,306
VraylarCariprazine Hcl13$19,914
OzempicSemaglutide19$19,661
Astagraf XlTacrolimus11$18,210
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog46$15,084
XareltoRivaroxaban43$14,357
AranespDarbepoetin Alfa In Polysorbat34$14,014
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium13$13,714
RexultiBrexpiprazole11$13,205

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
PfizerEliquis, Retacrit$77$201,981568 claims
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom$1,108$70,063113 claims
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta$145$53,60474 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$81$38,70348 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$157$21,30629 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$98$19,66119 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$93$16,18531 claims
AmgenAranesp$86$14,01434 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$190$13,20511 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$157$11,58725 claims
NovartisEntresto$118$8,73725 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 75th percentile of 285 nephrology providers in Maryland.

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