RxDoctor Payments Data

Sushma Medikayala, MD

Nephrology · Mount Rainier, MDNPI 1518227396

Payments from drug & device makers

$696in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $18.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$135
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$133
  • Novartis$79
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$48
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$46
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$46
  • plus $209 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$65694%
  • Education$406%

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

$696 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 285 nephrology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$161,912
Medicare patients
254
Services billed
3,044

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 Propanediol217$140,619
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$5,924
Sevelamer Carbonate12$1,976
Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2)14$170
Amlodipine Besylate68$137
Losartan Potassium24$113
Lisinopril20$92
Furosemide25$75
Hydrochlorothiazide25$70
Hydralazine Hcl13$36
Potassium Chloride11$26
Allopurinol17$23

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$135$140,619217 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$43$5,92411 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 285 nephrology providers in Maryland.

Other nephrology in Mount Rainier

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