RxDoctor Payments Data

Pranab Acharya

Nephrology · Monroe, NCNPI 1629385117

Payments from drug & device makers

$761in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $26.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$163
  • Novartis$138
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$90
  • Bayer$87
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$75
  • Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$55
  • plus $153 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$61881%
  • Education$14319%

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

19
24
25

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

$761 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$186,518
Medicare patients
381
Services billed
2,876

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 Propanediol82$63,185
JardianceEmpagliflozin48$43,208
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$10,289
Sevelamer Carbonate27$5,318
Verapamil Er PmVerapamil Hcl12$2,604
Torsemide47$816
Olmesartan Medoxomil72$653
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate14$635
Losartan Potassium54$519
Calcitriol31$408
Amlodipine Besylate40$250
Lisinopril48$157
Furosemide63$129
Chlorthalidone14$109
Hydralazine Hcl17$108

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$163$73,47499 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$19$43,20848 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 35th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.

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