RxDoctor Payments Data

Salah Sonbol, MD

Nephrology · Thousand Oaks, CANPI 1922008119

Payments from drug & device makers

$216,903in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $1355.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$217K
  • Baxter Healthcare$85
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58
  • Amgen$45

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$215100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Akebia Therapeutics Inc154$216,715
Baxter Healthcare1$85
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.2$58
Amgen(2 entities)3$45

How this compares

$216,903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$416,084
Medicare patients
481
Services billed
3,804

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
OzempicSemaglutide41$60,134
KerendiaFinerenone54$59,751
ProcritEpoetin Alfa20$43,857
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate28$40,629
Lyumjev Kwikpen U-200Insulin Lispro-Aabc13$17,106
EliquisApixaban13$16,172
Clonidine41$7,676
Nifedipine ErNifedipine146$7,442
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$6,979
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate49$4,220
Rosuvastatin Calcium144$3,807
Cyclosporine11$3,570
Sevelamer Carbonate23$3,530
Midodrine Hcl16$2,393
Bumetanide62$2,281

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
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$58$2,05641 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 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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