RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Ramos

Physician Assistant · Durham, NCNPI 1285241042

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,457in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $20.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$332
  • Novartis$289
  • GSK$282
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$234
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$210
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$156
  • plus $954 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,457100%

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

$2,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,476
Medicare patients
48
Services billed
279

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 Oxyhydroxide48$95,961
AuryxiaFerric Citrate33$34,257
Sevelamer Carbonate57$17,135
EliquisApixaban11$6,423
Torsemide33$598
Midodrine Hcl17$486
Amlodipine Besylate33$244
Furosemide41$208
Carvedilol27$204
Atorvastatin Calcium21$180
Metoprolol Succinate24$126
Losartan Potassium16$60

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$332$95,96148 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$45$34,25733 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 80th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.

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