RxDoctor Payments Data

Yuliya Sharakova, MD

Nephrology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1467815027

Payments from drug & device makers

$990in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $38.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$325
  • GSK$241
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$127
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$78
  • Tolmar, Inc.$54
  • Novartis$40
  • plus $124 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$84285%
  • Education$14715%

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

$990 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$81,886
Medicare patients
296
Services billed
744

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 Propanediol27$32,954
Losartan Potassium87$1,415
Sevelamer Carbonate13$698
Torsemide33$608
Nifedipine ErNifedipine34$502
Amlodipine Besylate67$421
Spironolactone46$418
Hydrochlorothiazide37$307
Potassium Chloride16$302
Doxazosin Mesylate11$273
Lisinopril46$259
Carvedilol40$253
Tamsulosin Hcl19$236
Hydralazine Hcl20$151
Chlorthalidone12$139

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$325$32,95427 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 45th percentile of 450 nephrology providers in Ohio.

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