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

George Nassar

Nephrology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1639171416 CMS profile 346134

6560 Fannin St Ste 1824, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$67,362

532 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$1,208

Paid to them · 16 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$704,989 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2021

Through program year 2025, George Nassar of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $67,362 across 532 general payments and $1,208 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $704,989 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $18,461 104
2024 General $37,053 127
2023 General $2,634 99
2022 General $2,360 93
2021 General $418 21
2020 General $3,834 21
2019 General $2,602 67
2019 Research $1,208 16

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to George Nassar were reported at $18,461. 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 George Nassar Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,602 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $3,834 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $418 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $2,360 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $2,634 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $37,053 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $18,461 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Lilly USA, LLC $23,531 26 payments
  2. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $19,693 33 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $5,552 20 payments
  4. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $3,473 5 payments
  5. Amgen Inc. $2,659 21 payments
  6. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $1,465 50 payments
  7. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,195 48 payments
  8. Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,168 45 payments
  9. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $867 19 payments
  10. Relypsa, Inc. $846 39 payments
  11. Other $6,913 226 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 $41,970 28 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $13,915 479 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $9,733 5 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $1,094 7 payments
  5. Education $650 13 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JARDIANCE Diabetes $21,611 24 payments
  2. JARDIANCE Diabetes $19,442 31 payments
  3. Fabhalta $5,271 10 payments
  4. PROCYSBI $2,229 2 payments
  5. JYNARQUE $1,604 37 payments
  6. FARXIGA $838 35 payments
  7. LUPKYNIS $634 24 payments
  8. Kerendia $570 27 payments
  9. Veltassa $563 25 payments
  10. ENVARSUS $542 19 payments
  11. Other $7,991 279 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $1,208 16 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 74 drugs

Part D claims

3,672

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$537,023

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

15.8%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 94 $102,248
Cinacalcet Hcl Generic 193 $91,517
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 32 $80,048
Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Brand 41 $49,377
Veltassa Patiromer Calcium Sorbitex Brand 28 $36,205
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 23 $33,687
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 19 $23,247
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 11 $19,725
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 97 $19,427
Tacrolimus Generic 70 $11,557

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 74 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 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 46 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$223,601

Of which drugs: $111

Medicare patients

398

Average age 65

Services billed

2,870

160 women, 238 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 67%
Ischemic heart disease 51%
Heart failure 49%
Arthritis 33%
Atrial fibrillation 29%
Depression 24%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 Office 14 1,100 $111

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 23 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
JARDIANCE
  • Lilly USA, LLC $15,626
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $13,686
$29,312 23 —
Fabhalta
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $5,100
$5,100 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $241
$241 94 —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $208
$208 — —
ENVARSUS
  • Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $150
$150 — —

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

548 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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