RxDoctor Payments Data

Rebecca Hughes

Nephrology · Roanoke, VANPI 1750526075

Payments from drug & device makers

$784in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $37.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$296
  • AstraZeneca$210
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$91
  • Novartis$37
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$36
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$30
  • plus $84 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$76598%
  • Education$192%

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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25

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

$784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$7,643
Medicare patients
57
Services billed
1,814

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 Oxyhydroxide25$59,230
AuryxiaFerric Citrate13$24,574
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol25$14,861
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$10,615
Sevelamer Carbonate64$5,358
Calcitriol131$2,256
Midodrine Hcl11$1,660
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen26$805
Famotidine30$629
Furosemide103$592
Allopurinol60$524
Amlodipine Besylate57$323
Losartan Potassium33$323
Klor-Con M20Potassium Chloride16$286
Tramadol Hcl19$272

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$18$24,57413 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$210$14,86125 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 40th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.

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