RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramin Gabbai, MD

Nephrology · West Hollywood, CANPI 1457417248

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,724in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $46.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$506
  • Amgen$321
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$215
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$175
  • Bayer$146
  • GSK$144
  • plus $219 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,724100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AstraZeneca(2 entities)14$506
Amgen(2 entities)8$321
Ardelyx, Inc.4$215
Akebia Therapeutics Inc2$175
Bayer2$146
GSK2$144
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.2$134
AbbVie1$34
Radius Health, Inc.1$31
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC1$19

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

$1,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$732,071
Medicare patients
401
Services billed
4,765

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$41,426
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate33$38,848
OzempicSemaglutide29$26,696
EliquisApixaban30$26,115
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol28$21,972
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl11$14,820
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$14,146
TradjentaLinagliptin14$12,078
Sevelamer Carbonate24$5,233
Cinacalcet Hcl12$4,357
Nifedipine ErNifedipine60$2,925
Mesalamine DrMesalamine11$2,811
Calcium Acetate28$1,714
Labetalol Hcl64$1,671
Potassium Chloride31$1,575

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$506$36,11845 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 55th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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