RxDoctor Payments Data

Swarupa Eskapalli, MD

Nephrology · Mishawaka, INNPI 1811199227

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,498in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 138 payments — averaging $25.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$524
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$394
  • Bayer$311
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$279
  • Amgen$228
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$195
  • plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$602%
  • Food & beverage$3,22892%
  • Education$2106%

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

$3,498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 238 nephrology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$227,008
Medicare patients
509
Services billed
1,796

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 Propanediol158$134,053
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide30$100,903
XphozahTenapanor Hcl15$42,116
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex41$30,733
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate48$24,062
Lanthanum Carbonate14$10,801
Sevelamer Carbonate66$8,196
Midodrine Hcl40$7,341
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol12$6,097
Calcium Acetate19$2,374
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate23$2,334
Hydralazine Hcl202$1,922
Potassium Chloride123$1,752
Cinacalcet Hcl18$1,294
Bumetanide34$1,227

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$524$158,115206 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$165$100,90330 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 70th percentile of 238 nephrology providers in Indiana.

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