RxDoctor Payments Data

Sushil Mehandru, MD

Nephrology · Wall, NJNPI 1366453409

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,407in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $52.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$301
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$283
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$218
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$125
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$118
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$94
  • plus $268 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,12780%
  • Education$28020%

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

$1,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 413 nephrology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$538,153
Medicare patients
534
Services billed
5,773

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
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex57$56,910
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate23$14,598
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl13$5,698
Potassium Chloride24$944
Furosemide112$824
Nifedipine ErNifedipine16$820
Calcitriol32$680
Metoprolol Succinate34$609
Allopurinol36$508
Amlodipine Besylate53$291
Spironolactone29$245
Losartan Potassium24$235
Hydralazine Hcl17$229
Carvedilol26$166
Clonidine Hcl27$160

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
AstraZenecaLokelma$301$14,59823 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 50th percentile of 413 nephrology providers in New Jersey.

Other nephrology in Wall

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