RxDoctor Payments Data

Tahir Sajjad, MD

Nephrology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1790727345

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,557in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $219.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$18K
  • AstraZeneca$297
  • Amgen$294
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$216
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$174
  • Baxter Healthcare$115
  • plus $630 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,60018%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$11,92561%
  • Travel & lodging$1,3677%
  • Food & beverage$2,57513%
  • Education$900%

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

$19,557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$141,946
Medicare patients
387
Services billed
1,179

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$25,787
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide11$17,971
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$16,071
Sevelamer Carbonate15$5,397
Nifedipine ErNifedipine111$2,673
Torsemide70$1,752
Potassium Chloride84$1,657
Hydralazine Hcl141$1,352
Klor-Con M20Potassium Chloride34$1,141
Tamsulosin Hcl98$1,115
Furosemide211$856
Desmopressin Acetate13$789
Losartan Potassium148$721
Allopurinol72$630
Amlodipine Besylate151$577

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$41$25,78739 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$63$17,97111 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$297$16,07111 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 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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