RxDoctor Payments Data

Savita Koolwal, MD

Nephrology · Pharr, TXNPI 1558334177

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,234in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $17.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$521
  • AstraZeneca$228
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$164
  • Baxter Healthcare$125
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$56
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$40
  • plus $101 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,17395%
  • Education$625%

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

19
20
21
22
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.

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

$1,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

See all nephrology providers in Texas

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$106,050
Medicare patients
144
Services billed
714

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate201$207,096
XphozahTenapanor Hcl64$193,708
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol192$186,782
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide45$169,879
JardianceEmpagliflozin118$126,362
KerendiaFinerenone112$107,381
AuryxiaFerric Citrate17$76,748
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex41$53,687
Sevelamer Carbonate133$50,689
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1206$40,339
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate32$29,191
MyrbetriqMirabegron34$26,763
ClinisolParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.554$9,086
ProcritEpoetin Alfa15$8,235
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol14$7,802

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
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$228$393,878393 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$56$169,87945 claims
BayerKerendia$36$107,381112 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$25$76,74817 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 40th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

Other nephrology in Pharr

See the full list for Texas

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →