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

Pagiel Shechter

Nephrology Los Angeles, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1093767337 CMS profile 49913

6222 Wilshire Blvd Ste 304, Los Angeles, CA 90048

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General payments

$1,052

48 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, Pagiel Shechter of Los Angeles, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,052 across 48 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 50th 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 $453 22
2024 General $227 9
2023 General $52 2
2022 General $123 5
2021 General $79 4
2020 General $85 4
2019 General $33 2

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Pagiel Shechter were reported at $453. 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 Pagiel Shechter Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $33 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $85 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $79 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $123 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $52 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $227 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $453 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Ardelyx, Inc. $270 16 payments
  2. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $141 6 payments
  3. Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $85 3 payments
  4. ITI, Inc. $76 3 payments
  5. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $60 2 payments
  6. Novo Nordisk Inc $54 2 payments
  7. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $53 2 payments
  8. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $47 2 payments
  9. Medtronic MiniMed, Inc. $45 2 payments
  10. Mannkind Corporation $41 2 payments
  11. Other $181 8 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,052 48 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. IBSRELA $270 16 payments
  2. CAPLYTA $76 3 payments
  3. ENTRESTO $69 3 payments
  4. Kerendia $60 2 payments
  5. LEQVIO $49 2 payments
  6. TARPEYO $47 2 payments
  7. RAYALDEE $47 2 payments
  8. Minimed 670G System $45 2 payments
  9. AFREZZA $41 2 payments
  10. OXLUMO $40 1 payment
  11. Other $273 11 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 · 158 drugs

Part D claims

8,006

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$975,047

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

25.9%

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
Metformin Er Gastric Metformin Hcl Brand 84 $101,831
Omeprazole-Sodium Bicarbonate Omeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate Brand 108 $98,899
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 85 $98,020
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 234 $89,268
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 131 $75,485
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 57 $41,775
Zileuton Er Zileuton Brand 13 $26,698
Dermacinrx Lidocan Lidocaine Brand 14 $22,581
Dermacinrx Lidogel Lidocaine Hcl Brand 13 $19,780
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 28 $19,438

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 158 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 · 43 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$480,467

Of which drugs: $569

Medicare patients

260

Average age 72

Services billed

5,071

132 women, 128 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 64%
Diabetes 63%
Arthritis 63%
Heart failure 54%
Ischemic heart disease 54%
Depression 49%
COPD 37%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage 90656 Office 24 24 $526

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

3 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
IBSRELA
  • Ardelyx, Inc. $98
$98 — —
TARPEYO
  • CALLIDITAS THERAPEUTICS US INC. $47
$47 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $29
$29 28 —

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.

Records

48 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.

Other Nephrology in California

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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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