Ramesh Saxena, MD
Nephrology · Dallas, TXNPI 1902868912
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 29 payments — averaging $205.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$5K
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$618
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$243
- Novartis$214
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$145
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$48
- plus $134 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,55076%
- Food & beverage$1,42224%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 2 | $4,569 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 9 | $618 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 4 | $243 |
| Novartis | 3 | $214 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $43 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,972 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XphozahTenapanor Hcl | 28 | $78,458 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 46 | $12,799 |
| Calcium Acetate | 20 | $1,826 |
| Calcitriol | 83 | $1,172 |
| Potassium Chloride | 27 | $461 |
| Megestrol Acetate | 14 | $443 |
| Losartan Potassium | 23 | $322 |
| Metolazone | 14 | $289 |
| Chlorthalidone | 11 | $287 |
| Furosemide | 37 | $285 |
| Carvedilol | 18 | $182 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 27 | $151 |
| Lisinopril | 36 | $133 |
| Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) | 11 | $122 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 11 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Dallas
- Ankit MehtaDallas$3M
- Irfan AghaDallas$3M
- David WojciechowskiDallas$1.6M
- Biff PalmerDallas$867K
- Gates ColbertDallas$828K
- Mark LermanDallas$564K
- Sumit KumarDallas$561K
- Robert TotoDallas$442K
- Akinwande AkinfolarinDallas$423K
- Deepa AmberkerDallas$300K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.