RxDoctor Payments Data

Walid Abou Assi, MD

Nephrology · Richmond, VANPI 1003867433

Payments from drug & device makers

$887in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $22.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$324
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$164
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$78
  • Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$66
  • AstraZeneca$52
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$45
  • plus $158 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$75185%
  • Education$11613%
  • Other$212%

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

$887 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$373,924
Medicare patients
765
Services billed
4,674

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 Propanediol11$10,161
Bumetanide85$2,173
Doxazosin Mesylate74$1,153
Furosemide261$1,136
Amlodipine Besylate159$739
Nifedipine ErNifedipine29$725
Losartan Potassium99$605
Calcitriol25$418
Hydralazine Hcl19$310
Allopurinol37$275
Lisinopril44$219
Spironolactone38$214
Carvedilol17$126
Olmesartan Medoxomil11$120
Prednisone18$114

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$52$10,16111 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 45th percentile of 298 nephrology providers in Virginia.

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