RxDoctor Payments Data

Samy Sharobeem, MD

Nephrology · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1679595870

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 369 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 56 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$8,216in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 369 payments — averaging $22.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$2K
  • Novartis$708
  • AstraZeneca$617
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$432
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$424
  • Edwards Lifesciences$350
  • plus $4K from 50 others
$19,945in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $2493.13 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • CSL Behring$20K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,212100%
  • Education$40%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$8,216 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$263,162
Medicare patients
270
Services billed
2,249

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
Paricalcitol20$2,657
Amlodipine Besylate24$339
Calcitriol13$279
Omeprazole17$191
Torsemide17$166
Atorvastatin Calcium37$139
Hydralazine Hcl11$113
Zolpidem Tartrate12$85
Lorazepam13$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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