RxDoctor Payments Data

Sohaib Zahid, MD

Nephrology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1851774160

Payments from drug & device makers

$945in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $20.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$304
  • AstraZeneca$183
  • Novo Nordisk$92
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$57
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$51
  • Amgen$44
  • plus $214 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$945100%

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.

How this compares

$945 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$167,346
Medicare patients
275
Services billed
1,577

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin403$356,761
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide104$275,803
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol135$104,162
OzempicSemaglutide67$71,470
AuryxiaFerric Citrate21$46,143
KerendiaFinerenone56$45,988
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex36$43,518
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate43$41,104
Sevelamer Carbonate58$18,001
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$10,915
Clonidine44$4,930
ClinisolParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.535$4,879
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.132$4,747
Losartan Potassium269$1,466
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate22$1,355

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$13$356,761403 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$304$275,803104 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$183$145,266178 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$92$71,47067 claims
BayerKerendia$20$45,98856 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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