RxDoctor Payments Data

Tania Vashistha, MD

Nephrology · Mission Hills, CANPI 1790080810

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,869in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $27.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$633
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$227
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$183
  • Amgen$147
  • Novartis$137
  • Bayer$136
  • plus $404 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,82398%
  • Education$452%

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

$1,869 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$126,173
Medicare patients
179
Services billed
1,159

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
JynarqueTolvaptan13$251,027
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex81$106,358
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol72$73,765
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate73$71,270
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide13$28,865
ProcritEpoetin Alfa19$19,760
Lanthanum Carbonate16$17,909
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$12,529
RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx22$11,533
Cinacalcet Hcl41$8,033
Sevelamer Carbonate12$3,522
Calcitriol136$2,892
Calcium Acetate24$2,187
Febuxostat20$2,180
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate14$1,797

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
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Jynarque$183$251,02713 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$633$145,035145 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$68$28,86513 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$43$12,52911 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 55th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

Other nephrology in Mission Hills

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