RxDoctor Payments Data

Raj Halker, MD

Nephrology · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1215158787

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,098in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 150 payments — averaging $20.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$736
  • AstraZeneca$671
  • Bayer$335
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$174
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$133
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$127
  • plus $921 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,00197%
  • Education$973%

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

$3,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$414,791
Medicare patients
579
Services billed
3,997

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 Oxyhydroxide51$131,140
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol95$105,465
KerendiaFinerenone75$66,238
Lanthanum Carbonate30$28,148
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate29$23,345
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$19,874
Sevelamer Carbonate72$17,136
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex20$15,758
Cinacalcet Hcl29$6,338
Paricalcitol40$5,137
Torsemide99$1,915
Nifedipine ErNifedipine44$1,908
Calcitriol104$1,701
Solifenacin Succinate16$773
Metolazone16$724

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$133$131,14051 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$671$128,810124 claims
BayerKerendia$335$66,23875 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$27$19,87425 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 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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