RxDoctor Payments Data

William Murrill, MD

Nephrology · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1285736173

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,398in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 213 payments — averaging $20.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$915
  • AstraZeneca$648
  • Amgen$414
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$393
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$389
  • Novartis$154
  • plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,27697%
  • Education$1233%

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

$4,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$226,745
Medicare patients
487
Services billed
1,839

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 Oxyhydroxide98$300,594
AuryxiaFerric Citrate72$171,397
XphozahTenapanor Hcl27$84,814
ProcritEpoetin Alfa77$60,571
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate34$21,348
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex23$21,019
Lanthanum Carbonate13$15,769
Sevelamer Carbonate69$8,137
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$6,623
Midodrine Hcl45$2,517
Hydralazine Hcl62$846
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine43$510
Calcitriol17$501
Carvedilol79$325
Nifedipine ErNifedipine25$318

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$915$300,59498 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$389$171,39772 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$648$21,34834 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$14$6,62311 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 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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