RxDoctor Payments Data

Seyed Farhad Chimeh, MD

Nephrology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1306820220

Payments from drug & device makers

$672in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $20.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$179
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$95
  • AbbVie$90
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$73
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$59
  • Amgen$44
  • plus $132 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$672100%

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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21

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

$672 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$907,040
Medicare patients
1,510
Services billed
8,799

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
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl210$86,449
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$41,062
TrulicityDulaglutide29$33,253
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate38$32,705
LinzessLinaclotide50$28,695
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl25$27,696
ProliaDenosumab14$22,525
TradjentaLinagliptin28$19,108
MyrbetriqMirabegron31$15,646
Icosapent Ethyl89$15,052
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$14,956
EliquisApixaban11$12,257
RybelsusSemaglutide11$10,715
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole48$9,048
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil12$5,485

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$20$33,25329 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$90$30,98481 claims
AmgenProlia$44$22,52514 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$24$14,95627 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$25$10,71511 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 35th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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