RxDoctor Payments Data

Wei Ling Lau, MD

Nephrology · Irvine, CANPI 1558572032

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,765in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $150.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$3K
  • Baxter Healthcare$234
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$139
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$108
  • Amgen$91
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$67
  • plus $237 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,88877%
  • Food & beverage$85023%
  • Education$271%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$3,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$148,067
Medicare patients
266
Services billed
912

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 Oxyhydroxide23$112,052
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$40,291
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate29$34,199
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$33,664
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex24$31,960
OzempicSemaglutide16$15,721
Cinacalcet Hcl23$7,075
Sevelamer Carbonate27$3,619
Nifedipine ErNifedipine33$2,345
Valsartan36$1,700
Doxazosin Mesylate27$574
Calcitriol29$533
Losartan Potassium40$454
Finasteride23$420
Carvedilol34$403

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$139$112,05223 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$18$15,72116 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 65th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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