RxDoctor Payments Data

Wesley Forgue, MD

Nephrology · Columbus, OHNPI 1649229360

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,571in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $29.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$425
  • Amgen$364
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$217
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$165
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$148
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$135
  • plus $117 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,567100%
  • Education$40%

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.

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

$1,571 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
$92,257
Medicare patients
48
Services billed
476

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 Oxyhydroxide43$84,056
Sevelamer Hcl16$4,652
Sevelamer Carbonate25$4,056
Calcium Acetate49$2,283
Nifedipine ErNifedipine37$1,135
Omeprazole31$427
Hydralazine Hcl38$299
Midodrine Hcl14$261
Trazodone Hcl15$241
Allopurinol74$219
Gabapentin25$183
Torsemide15$176
Hydroxyzine Hcl14$166
Pantoprazole Sodium20$145
Ondansetron Hcl14$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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$425$84,05643 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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