RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Holub, MD

Nephrology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1083667893

Payments from drug & device makers

$528in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $21.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$201
  • EMD Serono, Inc.$61
  • GSK$60
  • Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$34
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$31
  • Novartis$27
  • plus $115 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$528100%

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.

How this compares

$528 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$147,723
Medicare patients
212
Services billed
1,425

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 Oxyhydroxide57$216,959
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol153$185,504
AuryxiaFerric Citrate44$86,217
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate49$58,816
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex17$22,514
Sevelamer Carbonate104$21,122
Nifedipine ErNifedipine81$2,144
Midodrine Hcl15$1,215
Carvedilol125$931
Doxazosin Mesylate52$897
Prazosin Hcl13$806
Losartan Potassium121$701
Hydralazine Hcl60$698
Gentamicin Sulfate36$578
Amlodipine Besylate121$573

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$201$244,320202 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$31$216,95957 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 25th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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