RxDoctor Payments Data

Rajendra Chalasani, MD

Nephrology · Goodyear, AZNPI 1437349677

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,171in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $18.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$210
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$169
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$145
  • Amgen$127
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$100
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$55
  • plus $366 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,14398%
  • Education$282%

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

$1,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$195,390
Medicare patients
472
Services billed
3,048

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 Oxyhydroxide27$146,522
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate61$42,761
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$36,718
AuryxiaFerric Citrate18$35,456
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex29$34,512
Sevelamer Carbonate64$23,778
Lanthanum Carbonate20$14,044
Cinacalcet Hcl29$7,460
Nifedipine ErNifedipine136$3,627
Hydralazine Hcl110$2,412
Losartan Potassium156$1,410
Fluconazole15$905
Bumetanide17$878
Calcitriol25$834
Potassium Chloride40$816

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$18$146,52227 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$210$79,479102 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$145$35,45618 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 30th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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