RxDoctor Payments Data

Vasudevan Nair, MD

Nephrology · Mesa, AZNPI 1629025796

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,777in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 133 payments — averaging $20.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$451
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$349
  • AstraZeneca$231
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$226
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$197
  • Bayer$143
  • plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,67196%
  • Education$1064%

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

$2,777 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$246,597
Medicare patients
561
Services billed
4,599

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol296$194,018
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide14$44,195
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$9,831
Sevelamer Carbonate29$7,767
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol15$7,306
Calcitriol181$2,522
Calcium Acetate24$1,985
Hydralazine Hcl153$1,297
Potassium Chloride58$1,003
Midodrine Hcl14$756
Allopurinol84$703
Lisinopril131$660
Furosemide104$577
Tamsulosin Hcl39$545
Losartan Potassium53$533

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$231$194,018296 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$44$9,83118 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 50th percentile of 259 nephrology providers in Arizona.

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