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Srividya Venkatarama, MD

Nephrology · Desoto, TXNPI 1871684928

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,118in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 97 payments — averaging $32.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$665
  • GSK$629
  • Amgen$597
  • Bayer$251
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$249
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$236
  • plus $490 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,02197%
  • Education$963%

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.

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

$3,118 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$143,362
Medicare patients
226
Services billed
1,488

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin155$112,932
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol138$99,067
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate50$35,329
KerendiaFinerenone23$26,858
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex14$16,139
Sevelamer Carbonate53$11,845
Potassium Chloride30$1,155
Hydralazine Hcl110$1,001
Losartan Potassium181$957
Nifedipine ErNifedipine46$906
Midodrine Hcl19$671
Amlodipine Besylate120$468
Lisinopril103$371
Metoprolol Succinate11$281
Furosemide75$274

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$665$134,395188 claims
BayerKerendia$251$26,85823 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 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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