RxDoctor Payments Data

Saud Butt, MD

Nephrology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1063600328

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,176in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $37.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Outset Medical Inc$185
  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$160
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$149
  • Baxter Healthcare$115
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$103
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$97
  • plus $367 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,176100%

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

$1,176 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$144,378
Medicare patients
442
Services billed
1,273

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$23,947
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate30$11,281
Clonidine67$6,905
Sevelamer Carbonate16$3,755
Torsemide65$1,595
Cinacalcet Hcl11$1,393
Amlodipine Besylate160$960
Bumetanide37$797
Potassium Chloride62$723
Diltiazem Hcl14$624
Midodrine Hcl18$564
Nifedipine ErNifedipine29$389
Furosemide130$381
Allopurinol44$363
Klor-Con M20Potassium Chloride18$294

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$32$23,94726 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$14$11,28130 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 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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