RxDoctor Payments Data

Salvador Calaf, MD

Nephrology · Santa Rosa, CANPI 1053572156

Payments from drug & device makers

$115in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $19.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$56
  • Baxter Healthcare$35
  • AstraZeneca$25

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$115100%

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

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.

How this compares

$115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$310,175
Medicare patients
496
Services billed
1,656

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$49,976
JardianceEmpagliflozin32$41,310
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate32$40,273
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex24$33,665
Sevelamer Carbonate66$23,954
Cinacalcet Hcl14$10,625
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb16$9,696
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol14$6,899
Calcium Acetate24$3,982
Nifedipine ErNifedipine41$2,423
Torsemide75$1,887
Allopurinol122$1,573
Bumetanide17$918
Losartan Potassium64$665
Amlodipine Besylate89$619

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$25$90,25076 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 15th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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