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

Nzisa Mutinga

Nephrology Columbia, SC Medical Doctor

NPI 1104891837 CMS profile 94859

121 Park Central Dr, 200, Columbia, SC 29203

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General payments

$5,991

330 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, Nzisa Mutinga of Columbia, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,991 across 330 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 83rd 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 $1,082 52
2024 General $1,413 72
2023 General $1,284 67
2022 General $754 44
2021 General $567 37
2020 General $298 20
2019 General $593 38

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Nzisa Mutinga were reported at $1,082. 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 Nzisa Mutinga Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $593 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $298 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $567 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $754 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $1,284 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $1,413 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $1,082 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $659 31 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $596 37 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $563 33 payments
  4. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $524 31 payments
  5. Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $492 23 payments
  6. Amgen Inc. $467 27 payments
  7. Relypsa, Inc. $379 23 payments
  8. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $269 13 payments
  9. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $247 15 payments
  10. Retrophin, Inc. $234 10 payments
  11. Other $1,560 87 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,838 321 payments
  2. Education $153 9 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JYNARQUE $574 26 payments
  2. Velphoro $524 31 payments
  3. LOKELMA $397 26 payments
  4. Fabhalta $351 21 payments
  5. TARPEYO $319 17 payments
  6. LUPKYNIS $269 13 payments
  7. Veltassa $259 16 payments
  8. Kerendia $247 15 payments
  9. Auryxia $187 12 payments
  10. TAVNEOS $181 10 payments
  11. Other $2,203 120 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 · 30 drugs

Part D claims

1,043

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$241,762

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

24.1%

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 78 $68,116
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 26 $63,456
Auryxia Ferric Citrate Brand 26 $39,366
Procrit Epoetin Alfa Brand 39 $28,358
Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Brand 19 $10,682
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 14 $10,057
Retacrit Epoetin Alfa-Epbx Brand 24 $8,101
Calcitriol Generic 156 $3,091
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 29 $3,014
Valsartan Generic 24 $849

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 30 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 · 44 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$152,914

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

545

Average age 74

Services billed

4,461

327 women, 218 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%
Arthritis 50%
Ischemic heart disease 45%
Heart failure 43%
Atrial fibrillation 27%
Depression 25%

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 19 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
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $207
$207 — —
LUPKYNIS
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $144
$144 — —
TARPEYO
  • CALLIDITAS THERAPEUTICS US INC. $120
$120 — —
Velphoro
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $98
$98 26 —
Fabhalta
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $93
$93 — —

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

330 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 2025

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

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