RxDoctor Payments Data

Shweta Bansal, MD

Nephrology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1215083894

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $66,220 of the $88,692 with a category attached, or 74.7%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim at 27.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $37,660, 2.1 times the $18,336 reported in 2019. Among nephrology clinicians in TX 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.

$88,692in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $739.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$24K
  • Osprey Medical Inc$17K
  • Novartis$14K
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$11K
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$9K
  • Baxter Healthcare$6K
  • plus $8K from 13 others
$1,582,964in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 919 payments — averaging $1722.48 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Bayer$560K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$270K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$220K
  • AstraZeneca$187K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$134K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$75K
  • plus $138K from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$66,22075%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$8,74710%
  • Travel & lodging$9,36911%
  • Food & beverage$4,3175%
  • Education$390%

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

$88,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,291
Medicare patients
119
Services billed
394

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$25,431
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$21,365
LinzessLinaclotide15$13,946
ProcritEpoetin Alfa12$2,836
MupirocinMupirocin Calcium15$2,047
Torsemide79$1,796
Gentamicin Sulfate25$1,214
Potassium Chloride40$967
Midodrine Hcl14$494
Lactulose20$383
Losartan Potassium45$321
Nifedipine ErNifedipine14$278
Tamsulosin Hcl14$170
Esomeprazole Magnesium12$160
Carvedilol40$146

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$24,087$25,43117 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$343$21,36516 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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