RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Berkowitz, MD

Nephrology · Ypsilanti, MINPI 1053371286

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,066in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $20.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$206
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$117
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$111
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$103
  • Amgen$90
  • GSK$85
  • plus $353 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$93688%
  • Education$13012%

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

$1,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$177,305
Medicare patients
733
Services billed
17,131

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin464$600,897
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol67$84,462
KerendiaFinerenone51$79,784
AranespDarbepoetin Alfa In Polysorbat14$26,750
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$17,315
Sevelamer Carbonate34$13,867
OzempicSemaglutide12$11,878
ProcritEpoetin Alfa25$10,329
Olmesartan Medoxomil160$4,008
Calcitriol144$3,066
Potassium Chloride38$3,061
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate19$2,959
Bumetanide42$2,574
Losartan Potassium160$2,421
Valsartan33$2,094

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$45$600,897464 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$206$101,77781 claims
BayerKerendia$24$79,78451 claims
AmgenAranesp$90$26,75014 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 50th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.

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