RxDoctor Payments Data

Randall Hicks, MD

Nephrology · Meridian, MSNPI 1982600060

Payments from drug & device makers

$852in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $27.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$236
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$124
  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$112
  • Bayer$101
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$53
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$47
  • plus $179 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$82897%
  • Education$253%

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

$852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 105 nephrology providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$332,313
Medicare patients
375
Services billed
2,920

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 Oxyhydroxide80$194,600
AuryxiaFerric Citrate30$28,487
Sevelamer Carbonate173$22,094
Lanthanum Carbonate29$16,427
Nifedipine ErNifedipine52$1,213
Hydralazine Hcl83$1,058
Metoprolol Succinate39$553
Clonidine Hcl83$409
Amlodipine Besylate65$302
Valsartan21$295
Furosemide52$188
Carvedilol36$161
Losartan Potassium16$114
Allopurinol19$97
Omeprazole12$91

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
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$47$28,48730 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 35th percentile of 105 nephrology providers in Mississippi.

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