RxDoctor Payments Data

Shani Kotadia, MD

Nephrology · Tucson, AZNPI 1619256807

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,104in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $20.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$532
  • Amgen$255
  • Bayer$227
  • Novo Nordisk$159
  • Vantive US Healthcare LLC$149
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$146
  • plus $636 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,04697%
  • Education$583%

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.

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

$2,104 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$277,891
Medicare patients
711
Services billed
5,520

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 Propanediol31$48,691
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$28,472
KerendiaFinerenone19$26,763
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate32$16,885
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.167$13,237
Sevelamer Carbonate17$9,538
Calcium Acetate36$5,365
Calcitriol226$3,968
Torsemide135$3,169
Potassium Chloride82$3,031
Allopurinol237$2,455
Tamsulosin Hcl90$2,430
Losartan Potassium255$2,401
Amlodipine Besylate394$2,385
Cinacalcet Hcl32$2,129

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$532$65,57663 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$63$28,47221 claims
BayerKerendia$227$26,76319 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 45th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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