Oscar Galvez, MD
Nephrology · Miami, FLNPI 1578660650
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
4 manufacturers reported payments, led by GSK at 39.1% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $89, 6.1 times the $14 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for nephrology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $1,407.
Across 8 payments — averaging $18.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$57
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$49
- AstraZeneca$20
- Bayer$20
Across 591 payments — averaging $24,091 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$5M
- Regeneron$4.6M
- Pfizer$1.3M
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$1.3M
- Johnson & Johnson$1.1M
- GSK$412K
- plus $390K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7753%
- Education$6947%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 4 | $57 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $49 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$146 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 125 | $137,039 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 121 | $101,416 |
| VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide | 19 | $30,012 |
| EliquisApixaban | 25 | $24,064 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 55 | $12,584 |
| ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1 | 33 | $5,791 |
| Clonidine Hcl ErClonidine Hcl | 11 | $5,569 |
| RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx | 14 | $4,295 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 19 | $2,750 |
| Clonidine | 11 | $2,186 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 72 | $2,165 |
| Calcium Acetate | 45 | $2,078 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 14 | $1,882 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $1,627 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 41 | $1,012 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $20 | $101,416121 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 10th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.
Other nephrology in Miami
- Gabriel ContrerasMiami$133K
- Alessia FornoniMiami$97K
- Jonathan da CostaMiami$74K
- Yelena DrexlerMiami$43K
- Jochen ReiserMiami$43K
- Alba Gonzalez-OchoaMiami$39K
- Jorge BusseMiami$28K
- Loay SalmanMiami$14K
- David RothMiami$12K
- Arvind MadanOrlando$943K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.