RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen Kemnele

Nephrology · Rockford, ILNPI 1992180806

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,814in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $20.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$356
  • AstraZeneca$277
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$221
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$167
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$120
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$90
  • plus $584 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,69393%
  • Education$1217%

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

$1,814 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 524 nephrology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$321,495
Medicare patients
553
Services billed
2,906

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 Propanediol84$62,333
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate47$32,625
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$28,893
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex17$11,317
Calcitriol108$1,467
Allopurinol132$1,080
Bumetanide27$1,059
Sevelamer Carbonate12$1,028
Furosemide183$901
Hydralazine Hcl43$807
Amlodipine Besylate119$523
Colchicine22$516
Losartan Potassium71$448
Tamsulosin Hcl27$331
Carvedilol35$316

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$277$94,958131 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 65th percentile of 524 nephrology providers in Illinois.

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