RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheng Kuo, MD

Nephrology · Bronx, NYNPI 1134317944

Payments from drug & device makers

$52,082in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $336.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$24K
  • Vertex$19K
  • Humacyte Global, Inc.$6K
  • AstraZeneca$866
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$653
  • Bayer$336
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1502%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,77045%
  • Travel & lodging$811%
  • Food & beverage$2,84546%
  • Education$2785%

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

$52,082 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$177,645
Medicare patients
314
Services billed
1,491

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 Propanediol293$319,244
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate62$87,400
JardianceEmpagliflozin78$75,905
KerendiaFinerenone49$72,257
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex22$34,245
Cinacalcet Hcl22$33,365
RayaldeeCalcifediol26$22,722
TradjentaLinagliptin16$21,373
RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx14$17,354
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol20$13,883
Eplerenone115$9,109
Mycophenolate Mofetil41$4,762
Tacrolimus21$3,764
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate33$3,163
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide76$2,949

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$866$406,644355 claims
BayerKerendia$336$72,25749 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$210$22,72226 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 90th percentile of 935 nephrology providers in New York.

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