RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen Lui, MD

Nephrology · Lynwood, CANPI 1891770384

Payments from drug & device makers

$45,638in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $3803.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertex$45K
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$82
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$30
  • Koelis Inc.$29
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$24
  • Novo Nordisk$23
  • plus $54 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$22894%
  • Education$146%

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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25

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

$45,638 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,639
Medicare patients
114
Services billed
629

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide34$53,677
Sevelamer Carbonate53$10,356
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate12$6,599
Calcium Acetate69$4,356
Hydralazine Hcl56$592
Gentamicin Sulfate13$415
Furosemide41$220
Losartan Potassium26$209
Amlodipine Besylate42$201
Gabapentin15$184
Minoxidil13$158
Allopurinol15$101
Clonidine Hcl26$88

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$24$53,67734 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 85th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

Other nephrology in Lynwood

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