Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Biff Palmer

Nephrology Dallas, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1053380550 CMS profile 319932

5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390

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General payments

$866,884

874 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Biff Palmer of Dallas, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $866,884 across 874 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $28,945 24
2024 General $54,050 40
2023 General $138,455 121
2022 General $174,948 179
2021 General $214,909 225
2020 General $84,646 67
2019 General $170,930 218

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Biff Palmer
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Biff Palmer were reported at $28,945. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Biff Palmer Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $170,930 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $84,646 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $214,909 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $174,948 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $138,455 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $54,050 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $28,945 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $411,796 460 payments
  2. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $317,338 269 payments
  3. Relypsa, Inc. $40,880 67 payments
  4. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $26,969 16 payments
  5. Eli Lilly and Company $16,378 15 payments
  6. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $12,360 14 payments
  7. Lilly USA, LLC $10,335 11 payments
  8. Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $9,000 3 payments
  9. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $7,475 1 payment
  10. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $5,739 8 payments
  11. Other $8,613 10 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $630,870 236 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $104,217 50 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $102,342 373 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $18,833 211 payments
  5. Grant $6,621 2 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $4,000 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Kerendia $310,701 266 payments
  2. LOKELMA $259,070 275 payments
  3. FARXIGA $134,150 155 payments
  4. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $34,977 59 payments
  5. ACTHAR $26,969 16 payments
  6. JARDIANCE Diabetes $16,877 18 payments
  7. JARDIANCE Diabetes $9,300 9 payments
  8. VAPRISOL DEXTROSE IN PLASTIC CONTAINER $7,000 2 payments
  9. Non-Covered $6,638 3 payments
  10. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $5,902 8 payments
  11. Other $14,675 18 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 8 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$11,191

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

71

Average age 70

Services billed

107

33 women, 38 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Chronic kidney disease 75%
Arthritis 59%
Diabetes 56%
Heart failure 49%
Ischemic heart disease 48%
Atrial fibrillation 45%
Depression 34%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

4 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $26,420
$26,420 — —
LOKELMA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16,322
$16,322 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $6,143
$6,143 — —
Veltassa
  • Relypsa, Inc. $90
$90 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

874 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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