RxDoctor Payments Data

Sergio Vega, MD

Nephrology · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1336146679

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,108in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 96 payments — averaging $21.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$577
  • Amgen$274
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$165
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$160
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$146
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$133
  • plus $652 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,06398%
  • Education$452%

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

$2,108 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$346,940
Medicare patients
359
Services billed
2,543

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol94$63,808
OzempicSemaglutide51$56,634
JardianceEmpagliflozin51$43,892
MounjaroTirzepatide16$16,758
RayaldeeCalcifediol12$16,486
RybelsusSemaglutide11$15,209
Coreg CrCarvedilol Phosphate11$14,937
EliquisApixaban13$6,105
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$5,043
Sevelamer Carbonate18$4,945
Clonidine29$3,969
Nebivolol Hcl16$989
Nifedipine ErNifedipine40$874
Exemestane11$781
Amlodipine Besylate117$771

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$46$71,84262 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$577$63,80894 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$133$16,48612 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 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

Other nephrology in West Palm Beach

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