RxDoctor Payments Data

Yousef Sweidan, MD

Nephrology · Albany, GANPI 1649765157

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,335in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $22.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$427
  • Bayer$336
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$275
  • AstraZeneca$264
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$212
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$142
  • plus $681 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,25897%
  • Education$773%

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

$2,335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$310,328
Medicare patients
638
Services billed
6,201

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 Propanediol165$138,009
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide41$113,912
JardianceEmpagliflozin66$75,327
KerendiaFinerenone64$46,594
Sevelamer Carbonate149$27,624
Cinacalcet Hcl43$9,210
Calcium Acetate99$8,289
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.177$7,928
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$7,900
Tacrolimus15$3,818
Nifedipine ErNifedipine73$1,994
Calcitriol109$1,904
Potassium Chloride94$1,494
Hydralazine Hcl123$1,313
Losartan Potassium137$1,061

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$264$138,009165 claims
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$427$113,91241 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$142$75,32766 claims
BayerKerendia$336$46,59464 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 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.

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