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Raja Zabaneh, MD

Nephrology · Shreveport, LANPI 1437144052

Payments from drug & device makers

$207,807in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 502 payments — averaging $413.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$149K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$42K
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$5K
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$2K
  • Amgen$983
  • plus $3K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$11,32020%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$36,35064%
  • Travel & lodging$1,5223%
  • Food & beverage$7,47513%
  • Education$2490%

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.

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

$207,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$245,897
Medicare patients
688
Services billed
2,348

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 Oxyhydroxide12$49,755
OzempicSemaglutide21$28,622
RayaldeeCalcifediol17$27,526
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$24,027
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$15,952
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$15,462
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$13,227
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb24$10,449
Sevelamer Carbonate49$10,026
Cinacalcet Hcl15$8,608
Potassium Chloride40$1,610
Hydralazine Hcl109$1,338
Calcitriol81$1,251
Midodrine Hcl20$976
Nifedipine ErNifedipine43$630

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$4,738$49,75512 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$22$28,62221 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$310$27,52617 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$72$24,02725 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$772$13,22719 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 95th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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