RxDoctor Payments Data

Osvaldo Valenzuela, MD

Nephrology · Atlantis, FLNPI 1508847088

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,861in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 208 payments — averaging $23.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Bayer$953
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$608
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$357
  • Amgen$323
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$211
  • plus $994 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,838100%
  • Education$220%

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

$4,861 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$372,844
Medicare patients
581
Services billed
3,462

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide32$82,633
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$40,502
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol39$31,350
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex29$30,447
KerendiaFinerenone26$23,222
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$11,953
Cinacalcet Hcl17$8,242
Sevelamer Carbonate40$6,269
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate30$2,315
Calcium Acetate26$1,836
Nifedipine ErNifedipine54$1,366
Calcitriol119$1,247
Losartan Potassium97$1,125
Bumetanide31$655
Hydralazine Hcl84$627

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$211$82,63332 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$1,414$43,30353 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$123$40,50253 claims
BayerKerendia$953$23,22226 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 70th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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