RxDoctor Payments Data

Rodolfo Gutierrez-Alsina, MD

Nephrology · Hialeah, FLNPI 1922025014

Payments from drug & device makers

$104,850in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 61 payments — averaging $1718.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertex$85K
  • Merck$15K
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$3K
  • Bayer$567
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$128
  • AstraZeneca$90
  • plus $298 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,00893%
  • Education$747%

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

$104,850 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$219,995
Medicare patients
259
Services billed
1,385

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
KerendiaFinerenone154$151,380
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol154$106,688
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide25$68,677
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate58$50,735
TrulicityDulaglutide11$14,811
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$11,964
MounjaroTirzepatide12$10,071
Sevelamer Carbonate59$9,916
EliquisApixaban14$9,276
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$5,918
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters69$4,811
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified24$4,714
Calcium Acetate51$2,713
Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate36$2,642
Febuxostat28$2,191

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
BayerKerendia$567$151,380154 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$90$106,688154 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$128$68,67725 claims
MerckJanuvia$15,386$50,73558 claims
NovartisEntresto$28$11,96416 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 85th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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