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

Nestor Almeida

Nephrology Cordele, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1891089926 CMS profile 929563

106 W 4Th Ave, Cordele, GA 31015

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General payments

$9,605

322 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, Nestor Almeida of Cordele, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $9,605 across 322 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 88th 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 $247 13
2024 General $738 41
2023 General $515 22
2022 General $1,152 75
2021 General $1,021 50
2020 General $4,813 57
2019 General $1,120 64

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Nestor Almeida were reported at $247. 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 Nestor Almeida Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,120 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $4,813 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $1,021 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $1,152 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $515 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $738 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $247 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $5,033 61 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $746 47 payments
  3. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $525 23 payments
  4. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $512 27 payments
  5. Retrophin, Inc. $350 24 payments
  6. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $279 24 payments
  7. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $251 15 payments
  8. Horizon Therapeutics plc $243 12 payments
  9. Relypsa, Inc. $204 10 payments
  10. ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $174 15 payments
  11. Other $1,287 64 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,494 300 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 $3,315 3 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $605 2 payments
  4. Education $190 17 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JYNARQUE Nephrology $4,678 40 payments
  2. Kerendia $525 23 payments
  3. Parsabiv Nephrology $465 27 payments
  4. JYNARQUE Nephrology $373 22 payments
  5. BENLYSTA $279 24 payments
  6. FARXIGA $254 14 payments
  7. KRYSTEXXA $243 12 payments
  8. LOKELMA $241 12 payments
  9. Parsabiv Nephrology $191 15 payments
  10. PURIFIED CORTROPHIN GEL $174 15 payments
  11. Other $1,940 100 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 · 101 drugs

Part D claims

3,831

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$271,876

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

20.6%

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 59 $61,967
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 36 $34,872
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 29 $26,388
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 29 $22,982
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 31 $21,238
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 23 $13,353
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 12 $12,809
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 18 $11,446
Combivent Respimat Ipratropium/Albuterol Sulfate Brand 14 $10,809
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 37 $6,247

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 101 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 · 30 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$56,995

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

120

Average age 73

Services billed

733

60 women, 60 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 59%
Heart failure 38%
Arthritis 36%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
COPD 27%
Depression 24%

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 10 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 $117
$117 59 —
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $97
$97 29 —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $89
$89 — —
LUPKYNIS
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $85
$85 — —
IBSRELA
  • Ardelyx, Inc. $72
$72 — —

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

322 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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