RxDoctor Payments Data

Xueguang Chen, MD

Nephrology · Springfield, ILNPI 1730243015

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,501in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $93.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Baxter Healthcare$1K
  • AstraZeneca$125
  • Recor Medical Inc$107
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$79
  • Amgen$21

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$80153%
  • Food & beverage$61841%
  • Education$836%

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

$1,501 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 524 nephrology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$182,971
Medicare patients
381
Services billed
1,289

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
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate12$17,464
Sevelamer Carbonate60$8,741
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate15$6,343
Calcium Acetate31$2,058
Calcitriol67$875
Furosemide144$669
Hydralazine Hcl30$500
Potassium Chloride18$408
Amlodipine Besylate75$389
Carvedilol33$360
Metoprolol Succinate17$296
Hydrochlorothiazide21$244
Tamsulosin Hcl13$184
Lisinopril19$181
Losartan Potassium22$172

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
AstraZenecaLokelma$125$6,34315 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 60th percentile of 524 nephrology providers in Illinois.

Other nephrology in Springfield

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