RxDoctor Payments Data

Rehana Saquib, MD

Nephrology · McKinney, TXNPI 1053370346

Payments from drug & device makers

$220in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $18.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$73
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$51
  • Amgen$41
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$26
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$16
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$220100%

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

19
20
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

$220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$266,772
Medicare patients
433
Services billed
3,883

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 Oxyhydroxide37$100,259
Sevelamer Carbonate57$8,347
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$7,471
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex11$4,909
Clonidine16$2,079
Nifedipine ErNifedipine57$1,647
Hydralazine Hcl94$1,330
Tamsulosin Hcl54$1,151
Calcium Acetate21$1,150
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate13$841
Torsemide41$671
Carvedilol83$666
Losartan Potassium69$649
Famotidine34$600
Allopurinol51$551

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$13$100,25937 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$73$7,47111 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 15th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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