RxDoctor Payments Data

Zohreh Soltani, MD

Nephrology · New Orleans, LANPI 1801080452

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,189in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $99.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$183
  • AstraZeneca$150
  • Amgen$125
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$125
  • Sanofi$122
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$116
  • plus $368 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$15013%
  • Food & beverage$96281%
  • Education$776%

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

$1,189 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$18,014
Medicare patients
69
Services billed
183

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
NulojixBelatacept16$49,653
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate47$36,209
Atovaquone78$34,610
Cinacalcet Hcl169$29,186
Valganciclovir Hcl72$10,280
Tacrolimus54$7,179
Calcitriol161$2,364
Nifedipine ErNifedipine104$2,142
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium17$1,916
Mycophenolate Mofetil31$1,669
Ultra-Fine Nano Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic21$1,242
Ketoconazole56$1,179
Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate17$1,051
Prednisone152$810
Carvedilol116$739

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$150$36,20947 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 35th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.

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