RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheldon Shore, MD

Nephrology · Atlanta, GANPI 1588647697

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $375,978 of the $474,173 with a category attached, or 79.3%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bayer at 27.1% of the total. Among nephrology clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$474,173in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,471 payments — averaging $322.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$129K
  • AstraZeneca$118K
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$76K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$53K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$28K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$15K
  • plus $55K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$44,9329%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$375,97879%
  • Travel & lodging$24,9475%
  • Food & beverage$27,8216%
  • Education$4940%

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

$474,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$192,808
Medicare patients
485
Services billed
1,658

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 Propanediol418$428,433
JardianceEmpagliflozin163$152,284
KerendiaFinerenone81$119,978
OzempicSemaglutide102$119,083
MounjaroTirzepatide36$53,701
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate41$37,835
RayaldeeCalcifediol21$27,673
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$17,650
InvokanaCanagliflozin11$16,580
ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho52$14,867
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$14,653
TrulicityDulaglutide12$11,787
Clonidine52$9,672
Eplerenone105$8,221
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol15$6,759

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$118,010$466,268459 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15,164$152,284163 claims
BayerKerendia$128,534$119,97881 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$384$119,083102 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$28,146$65,48948 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$787$27,67321 claims
Johnson & JohnsonInvokana$34$16,58011 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 95th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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