RxDoctor Payments Data

Rahim Kassamali, MD

Nephrology · Gainesville, GANPI 1932162641

Payments from drug & device makers

$506in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $17.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$136
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$64
  • Bayer$56
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$52
  • Amgen$42
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$25
  • plus $131 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$48195%
  • Education$255%

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

$506 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$105,472
Medicare patients
175
Services billed
748

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 Oxyhydroxide14$34,188
Sevelamer Carbonate74$12,954
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$11,548
EliquisApixaban11$10,021
Calcium Acetate24$2,677
Midodrine Hcl39$1,727
Gentamicin Sulfate21$1,200
Metoprolol Succinate48$1,023
Amlodipine Besylate124$1,018
Atorvastatin Calcium90$1,014
Gabapentin93$773
Hydralazine Hcl47$741
Losartan Potassium41$582
Potassium Chloride34$576
Levothyroxine Sodium59$567

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$52$34,18814 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 25th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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