RxDoctor Payments Data

Rejeesh Vasudev, MD

Nephrology · Bryan, TXNPI 1083807937

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,912in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $27.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$387
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$347
  • Bayer$250
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$228
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$176
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$129
  • plus $396 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,75092%
  • Education$1628%

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
21
22
23
24
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.

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

$1,912 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

See all nephrology providers in Texas

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$283,671
Medicare patients
376
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 Oxyhydroxide36$89,018
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate38$33,627
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$28,268
KerendiaFinerenone29$25,721
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex17$19,583
Sevelamer Carbonate72$16,099
Calcium Acetate50$5,216
Nifedipine ErNifedipine144$4,354
Calcitriol169$2,888
Hydralazine Hcl222$2,044
Amlodipine Besylate218$1,617
Torsemide36$806
Losartan Potassium81$664
Carvedilol137$641
Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2)38$488

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$12$89,01836 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$387$61,89582 claims
BayerKerendia$250$25,72129 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 50th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

Other nephrology in Bryan

See the full list for Texas

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →