Sejal Sarolia, MD
Nephrology · Houston, TXNPI 1609050970
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 193 payments — averaging $20.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$724
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$597
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$471
- Amgen$344
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$308
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$273
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,80396%
- Education$1414%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 34 | $724 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 35 | $597 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 27 | $471 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 16 | $344 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $308 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 14 | $273 |
| Novartis | 10 | $271 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $219 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 9 | $210 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 9 | $177 |
| Bayer | 6 | $110 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$3,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 76 | $57,173 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 53 | $56,470 |
| VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide | 19 | $55,750 |
| RayaldeeCalcifediol | 27 | $32,508 |
| ProcritEpoetin Alfa | 27 | $27,257 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 100 | $22,037 |
| EpogenEpoetin Alfa | 13 | $6,843 |
| Calcium Acetate | 73 | $5,943 |
| RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx | 12 | $4,799 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 163 | $4,701 |
| Clonidine | 25 | $4,501 |
| AranespDarbepoetin Alfa In Polysorbat | 14 | $4,116 |
| SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb | 14 | $2,383 |
| Bumetanide | 58 | $2,359 |
| Losartan Potassium | 221 | $2,111 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga | $219 | $113,643129 claims |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro | $177 | $55,75019 claims |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee | $471 | $32,50827 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonProcrit | $15 | $27,25727 claims |
| AmgenEpogen, Aranesp | $344 | $10,95927 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 65th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.
Other nephrology in Houston
- Sreedhar MandayamHouston$7M
- Marializa BernardoHouston$4.2M
- Stephen FademHouston$2.4M
- Biruh WorkenehHouston$1.8M
- Rahul PandeyHouston$1.6M
- Christopher KwohHouston$928K
- George NassarHouston$772K
- June YaoHouston$651K
- Maher BisharaHouston$489K
- Wolfgang WinkelmayerHouston$462K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.