RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Choi, MD

Nephrology · Dallas, TXNPI 1588899256

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,455in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 258 payments — averaging $21.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$700
  • Amgen$607
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$539
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$415
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$365
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$361
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,40899%
  • Education$481%

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

$5,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,111
Medicare patients
91
Services billed
928

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol51$50,333
XphozahTenapanor Hcl12$33,584
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$15,791
RayaldeeCalcifediol11$14,650
Sevelamer Carbonate21$4,734
Nifedipine ErNifedipine13$542
Lisinopril53$354
Losartan Potassium55$328
Amlodipine Besylate67$305
Tamsulosin Hcl23$217
Furosemide32$214
Carvedilol22$206
Hydralazine Hcl14$108
Allopurinol16$64
Pantoprazole Sodium11$57

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$700$50,33351 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$539$14,65011 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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