RxDoctor Payments Data

Robin Bennett, MD

Nephrology · Alexandria, LANPI 1437142437

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,704in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $18.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$451
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$425
  • Bayer$367
  • AstraZeneca$354
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$317
  • Amgen$283
  • plus $508 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,65098%
  • Education$542%

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

$2,704 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$81,634
Medicare patients
186
Services billed
565

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 Oxyhydroxide26$80,602
XphozahTenapanor Hcl17$51,366
Sevelamer Carbonate47$5,098
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen21$489
Torsemide20$415
Labetalol Hcl14$376
Ondansetron Hcl11$258
Hydralazine Hcl14$246
Losartan Potassium13$230
Nifedipine ErNifedipine14$210
Furosemide13$121
Tamsulosin Hcl11$83
Allopurinol21$80
Amlodipine Besylate38$78
Carvedilol11$62

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$451$80,60226 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 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

Other nephrology in Alexandria

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