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

Gregory Schlessinger

Nephrology Lone Tree, CO Medical Doctor

NPI 1255313441 CMS profile 541053

9777 S Yosemite St Ste 110, Lone Tree, CO 80124

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General payments

$3,645

84 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, Gregory Schlessinger of Lone Tree, CO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,645 across 84 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 74th 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 $492 20
2024 General $515 17
2023 General $365 17
2022 General $333 11
2021 General $1,577 9
2020 General $219 6
2019 General $145 4

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Gregory Schlessinger were reported at $492. 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 Gregory Schlessinger Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $145 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $219 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $1,577 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $333 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $365 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $515 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $492 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $1,080 1 payment
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $495 13 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $372 15 payments
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $203 5 payments
  5. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $187 4 payments
  6. NxStage Medical, Inc. $186 2 payments
  7. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $180 7 payments
  8. Relypsa, Inc. $160 7 payments
  9. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $143 2 payments
  10. Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $109 4 payments
  11. Other $529 24 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $2,549 82 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $1,080 1 payment
  3. Education $17 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Argyle $1,080 1 payment
  2. FARXIGA $311 8 payments
  3. Kerendia $203 5 payments
  4. TAVNEOS $196 8 payments
  5. Parsabiv $195 8 payments
  6. BENLYSTA $187 4 payments
  7. LOKELMA $158 4 payments
  8. JYNARQUE $154 6 payments
  9. Vafseo $143 2 payments
  10. Aranesp $133 5 payments
  11. Other $1,042 34 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 · 14 drugs

Part D claims

457

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$112,354

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

23.6%

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 48 $45,109
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 38 $41,494
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 22 $19,449
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 23 $2,270
Cinacalcet Hcl Generic 50 $1,466
Furosemide Generic 61 $655
Calcitriol Generic 33 $458
Losartan Potassium Generic 71 $387
Lisinopril Generic 27 $284
Amlodipine Besylate Generic 29 $267

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 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 · 23 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$28,893

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

107

Average age 73

Services billed

300

53 women, 54 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 50%
Ischemic heart disease 45%
Heart failure 44%
Arthritis 43%
Depression 30%
Atrial fibrillation 29%

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 11 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
Aranesp
  • Amgen Inc. $69
$69 — —
Auryxia
  • AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $63
$63 — —
Vafseo
  • AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $63
$63 — —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $58
$58 — —
Veltassa
  • Relypsa, Inc. $44
$44 — —

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

84 reported

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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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