RxDoctor Payments Data

Rajendra Baliga, MD

Nephrology · Tampa, FLNPI 1932103264

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,121in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $74.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$253
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$244
  • Vantive US Healthcare LLC$160
  • Amgen$127
  • AstraZeneca$125
  • Baxter Healthcare$104
  • plus $108 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,121100%

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.

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

$1,121 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$158,754
Medicare patients
359
Services billed
1,473

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
PrevymisLetermovir27$181,298
OzempicSemaglutide47$42,370
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$35,859
Envarsus XrTacrolimus12$20,746
Valganciclovir Hcl80$16,802
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate16$11,706
Cinacalcet Hcl40$7,812
Ultra-Fine Nano Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic35$1,995
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart14$1,991
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium11$1,334
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog22$1,192
Nifedipine ErNifedipine35$749
Bumetanide35$640
Prednisone105$627
Calcitriol18$569

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$125$47,56557 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 40th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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