RxDoctor Payments Data

Pairach Pintavorn, MD

Nephrology · Augusta, GANPI 1588626030

Payments from drug & device makers

$201in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $16.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$55
  • AstraZeneca$52
  • Sanofi$42
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$28
  • Bayer$16
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$7

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$19496%
  • Education$74%

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

$201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$319,455
Medicare patients
622
Services billed
2,212

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin502$617,714
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol282$297,731
OzempicSemaglutide83$98,700
RybelsusSemaglutide46$89,329
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate71$69,906
AuryxiaFerric Citrate33$51,972
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex37$43,534
XphozahTenapanor Hcl14$38,347
Sevelamer Carbonate152$31,825
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide12$25,859
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$25,117
LinzessLinaclotide22$24,526
MounjaroTirzepatide11$20,955
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate12$20,439
WegovySemaglutide11$19,154

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, Lokelma$52$367,637353 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$55$25,85912 claims
BayerKerendia$16$12,12917 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 15th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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