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Sreesh Iyengar, MD

Nephrology · San Bernardino, CANPI 1699069146

Payments from drug & device makers

$159,396in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 755 payments — averaging $211.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$83K
  • Amgen$64K
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$2K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$1K
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$1K
  • plus $7K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$82,23852%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$53,87834%
  • Travel & lodging$6,4674%
  • Food & beverage$16,09610%
  • Education$7170%

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

$159,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$275,232
Medicare patients
449
Services billed
2,113

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
KrystexxaPegloticase34$1,951,180
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate115$115,815
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol122$112,829
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide31$104,562
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex58$80,481
BenlystaBelimumab14$69,460
RayaldeeCalcifediol48$63,027
XphozahTenapanor Hcl24$62,028
AuryxiaFerric Citrate60$58,255
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol85$56,601
KerendiaFinerenone37$34,743
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$14,090
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.180$10,658
ClinisolParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.552$9,811
Cinacalcet Hcl11$7,361

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
AmgenKrystexxa$63,870$1,951,18034 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$1,908$228,645237 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$279$104,56231 claims
GSKBenlysta$665$69,46014 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$652$63,02748 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$1,198$58,25560 claims
BayerKerendia$575$34,74337 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$195$14,09014 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 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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