RxDoctor Payments Data

Tariq Muhammad, MD

Nephrology · Louisville, KYNPI 1073561122

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,771in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $17.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$310
  • AstraZeneca$250
  • Bayer$228
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$196
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$171
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$170
  • plus $446 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,74198%
  • Education$302%

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

$1,771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 165 nephrology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$314,778
Medicare patients
503
Services billed
2,280

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide18$98,550
AuryxiaFerric Citrate11$34,332
Sevelamer Carbonate94$28,641
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate24$23,401
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$13,230
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$6,600
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb14$5,773
Calcium Acetate36$4,717
Bumetanide75$3,037
Midodrine Hcl20$2,997
Torsemide135$2,314
Nifedipine ErNifedipine73$2,225
Hydralazine Hcl98$1,952
Valsartan56$1,740
Potassium Chloride84$1,662

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$196$98,55018 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$310$34,33211 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$250$23,40124 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 165 nephrology providers in Kentucky.

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