Medical Doctor Program year 2022 Reported 2019–2022 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Harold Franch

Nephrology Atlanta, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1922018878 CMS profile 1158228

1365 Clifton Rd Ne Bldg B, The Emory Clinic - Nephrology, Atlanta, GA 30322

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General payments

$27

11 records reported · program years 2019–2022

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2022

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2022, Harold Franch of Atlanta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $27 across 11 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 4th percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

4 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2022 General $2 1
2021 General $15 7
2020 General $8 2
2019 General $1 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Harold Franch were reported at $0. 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 Harold Franch Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $1 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $8 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $15 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $2 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $0 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $0 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $0 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2022
  1. Retrophin, Inc. $27 11 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2022
  1. Education $27 11 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2022
  1. Thiola $18 8 payments
  2. (815) Thiola $9 3 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 · 23 drugs

Part D claims

751

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$62,352

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

21.7%

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
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 42 $30,080
Potassium Citrate Er Potassium Citrate Brand 92 $8,992
Cinacalcet Hcl Generic 23 $8,044
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 19 $6,574
Potassium Chloride Generic 98 $2,544
Nifedipine Er Nifedipine Brand 17 $1,243
Chlorthalidone Generic 56 $1,174
Torsemide Generic 20 $621
Calcitriol Generic 31 $579
Allopurinol Generic 44 $284

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 23 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 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$71,330

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

228

Average age 68

Services billed

912

118 women, 110 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 43%
Arthritis 43%
Ischemic heart disease 39%
Heart failure 36%
Atrial fibrillation 21%
Depression 21%

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.

Records

11 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 2022

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

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