RxDoctor Payments Data

Sean Murphy

Nephrology · Georgetown, SCNPI 1720176647

Payments from drug & device makers

$368in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $18.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$149
  • AstraZeneca$57
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$56
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$49
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$23
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$19
  • plus $16 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$368100%

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.

How this compares

$368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 180 nephrology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$214,327
Medicare patients
316
Services billed
1,180

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide32$48,864
AuryxiaFerric Citrate22$31,310
FosrenolLanthanum Carbonate16$23,921
Sevelamer Carbonate142$22,221
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex25$18,405
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$10,033
Lanthanum Carbonate14$6,497
Calcitriol225$3,976
Febuxostat12$1,641
Losartan Potassium90$1,028
Calcium Acetate13$824
Potassium Chloride12$612
Furosemide105$601
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine12$567
Labetalol Hcl15$517

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$57$10,03314 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 180 nephrology providers in South Carolina.

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