RxDoctor Payments Data

Rafael Fletes, MD

Nephrology · Merrillville, INNPI 1952306466

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,754in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 146 payments — averaging $18.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$473
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$414
  • Amgen$305
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$274
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$221
  • Bayer$181
  • plus $886 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,73799%
  • Education$171%

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

$2,754 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 238 nephrology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$320,117
Medicare patients
740
Services billed
3,124

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 Oxyhydroxide23$54,824
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$33,098
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$26,080
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$18,541
Cinacalcet Hcl11$12,992
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate22$9,846
Sevelamer Carbonate48$5,658
Midodrine Hcl18$3,272
Bumetanide71$2,076
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.112$1,908
Clonidine11$1,519
Potassium Chloride63$947
Nifedipine ErNifedipine60$836
Chlorthalidone51$684
Amlodipine Besylate101$625

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$274$54,82423 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$473$35,92641 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 65th percentile of 238 nephrology providers in Indiana.

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