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

Christian Nwankwo

Nephrology Saint Louis, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1679772198 CMS profile 75602

10004 Kennerly Rd, Suite 374B, Saint Louis, MO 63128

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General payments

$10,554

262 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, Christian Nwankwo of Saint Louis, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,554 across 262 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 89th 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 $1,086 52
2024 General $880 43
2023 General $1,604 30
2022 General $5,338 40
2021 General $751 38
2020 General $422 27
2019 General $472 32

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Christian Nwankwo were reported at $1,086. 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 Christian Nwankwo Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $472 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $422 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $751 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $5,338 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $1,604 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $880 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $1,086 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $6,212 31 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $557 21 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $548 30 payments
  4. Relypsa, Inc. $542 50 payments
  5. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $468 25 payments
  6. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $419 16 payments
  7. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $339 19 payments
  8. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $212 11 payments
  9. Retrophin, Inc. $151 9 payments
  10. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $138 7 payments
  11. Other $966 43 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,858 252 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $4,120 3 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $1,020 1 payment
  4. Travel and Lodging $524 3 payments
  5. Education $31 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Auryxia $6,198 30 payments
  2. FARXIGA $426 13 payments
  3. JYNARQUE $420 23 payments
  4. BENLYSTA $339 19 payments
  5. KRYSTEXXA $287 17 payments
  6. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $282 33 payments
  7. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $249 16 payments
  8. Velphoro $226 13 payments
  9. Kerendia $212 11 payments
  10. INJECTAFER $138 7 payments
  11. Other $1,520 75 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 44 drugs

Part D claims

2,745

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$561,499

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

14.5%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 84 $263,376
Auryxia Ferric Citrate Brand 52 $126,035
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 83 $63,537
Lanthanum Carbonate Generic 29 $30,453
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 211 $28,827
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 33 $20,487
Clonidine Generic 81 $10,209
Bumetanide Generic 146 $2,624
Midodrine Hcl Generic 35 $1,624
Carvedilol Generic 298 $1,231

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 44 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 24 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$203,429

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

377

Average age 71

Services billed

2,322

214 women, 163 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%
Diabetes 65%
Heart failure 59%
Ischemic heart disease 51%
Arthritis 47%
Depression 36%
COPD 35%

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

First 5 of 15 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
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $242
$242 83 —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $92
$92 — —
BENLYSTA
  • GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $59
$59 — —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $59
$59 — —
Velphoro
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $41
$41 84 —

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.

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Records

262 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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