Towfiqul Chowdhury
Nephrology · Detroit, MINPI 1487219028
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 10 payments — averaging $22.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$45
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$44
- AstraZeneca$29
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$25
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$23
- Ardelyx, Inc.$23
- plus $38 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$228100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 2 | $45 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $29 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $19 |
How this compares
$228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 11 | $309 |
| Torsemide | 16 | $198 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 18 | $151 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Detroit
- Kausik UmanathDetroit$318K
- Yahya Osman MalikDetroit$182K
- Jian LiDetroit$143K
- Anatole BesarabDetroit$102K
- Mark FaberDetroit$92K
- Vanji KarthikeyanDetroit$72K
- Meaghan RocheDetroit$64K
- James NovakDetroit$33K
- Aris UrbanesDetroit$14K
- Matthias KretzlerAnn Arbor$7.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.