RxDoctor Payments Data

Syed Shariq Saghir, MD

Nephrology · Sherman, TXNPI 1841319498

Payments from drug & device makers

$246,921in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $3336.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$201K
  • Hoffmann-la Roche Limited$45K
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$284
  • AstraZeneca$244
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$127
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$48
  • plus $128 from 4 others
$116,188in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $116,188 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Eli Lilly$116K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$79395%
  • Education$395%

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

$246,921 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,035,633
Medicare patients
1,417
Services billed
10,224

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate41$34,227
RayaldeeCalcifediol14$16,911
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex12$14,633
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$14,604
Nifedipine ErNifedipine152$5,021
Calcitriol114$2,511
Sevelamer Carbonate18$2,417
Potassium Chloride100$1,460
Clonidine11$1,361
Hydralazine Hcl140$1,314
Furosemide244$1,292
Allopurinol99$777
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate13$746
Midodrine Hcl14$629
Ciprofloxacin Hcl77$395

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, Farxiga$244$48,83156 claims
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLCRayaldee$284$16,91114 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 90th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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