RxDoctor Payments Data

Rajesh Kumar, MD

Nephrology · Mesa, AZNPI 1912920992

Payments from drug & device makers

$592in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $17.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$179
  • Bayer$152
  • Amgen$70
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$44
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$35
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$22
  • plus $88 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$592100%

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

$592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$408,306
Medicare patients
893
Services billed
5,116

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin101$104,824
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol137$86,267
KerendiaFinerenone35$50,017
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide11$38,791
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate46$32,190
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$14,841
OzempicSemaglutide13$12,093
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol18$9,606
Sevelamer Carbonate44$8,347
Allopurinol504$4,403
Bumetanide104$4,049
Potassium Chloride93$2,320
Nifedipine ErNifedipine71$2,237
Midodrine Hcl26$2,076
Losartan Potassium123$1,451

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$179$118,457183 claims
BayerKerendia$152$50,01735 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 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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