RxDoctor Payments Data

Uzma Mehdi, MD

Nephrology · Garland, TXNPI 1336384577

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,910in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $20.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$548
  • AstraZeneca$466
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$396
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$312
  • Bayer$151
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$121
  • plus $915 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,897100%
  • Education$130%

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

$2,910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$328,993
Medicare patients
399
Services billed
8,619

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 Oxyhydroxide49$122,469
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol68$59,661
ThiolaTiopronin12$41,565
Sevelamer Carbonate76$21,032
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate16$5,758
Midodrine Hcl47$3,882
Calcium Acetate34$3,166
Cinacalcet Hcl12$1,318
Potassium Chloride34$1,110
Nifedipine ErNifedipine28$994
Torsemide30$745
Hydralazine Hcl82$709
Furosemide111$588
Olmesartan Medoxomil38$584
Famotidine32$530

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$396$122,46949 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$466$65,41984 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 60th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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