RxDoctor Payments Data

Vijaya Venkataraman, MD

Nephrology · Lancaster, OHNPI 1609989284

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,782in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 106 payments — averaging $16.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$260
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$259
  • Novartis$201
  • Bayer$159
  • AstraZeneca$158
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$112
  • plus $634 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,63091%
  • Education$1529%

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

$1,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$121,791
Medicare patients
342
Services billed
1,168

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 Propanediol125$93,600
XphozahTenapanor Hcl13$77,815
Tolvaptan12$58,278
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate44$37,562
Cinacalcet Hcl14$31,094
KerendiaFinerenone39$30,733
MyrbetriqMirabegron20$10,605
EliquisApixaban17$9,750
Doxazosin Mesylate440$8,149
Sevelamer Carbonate59$5,426
Eplerenone88$4,768
Clonidine18$4,047
Nifedipine ErNifedipine152$3,772
ZypitamagPitavastatin Magnesium13$2,946
Carvedilol406$2,785

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, Lokelma$158$131,162169 claims
BayerKerendia$159$30,73339 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 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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