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

Pawan Rao

Nephrology North Syracuse, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1730283144 CMS profile 305979

6846 Buckley Rd, North Syracuse, NY 13212

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General payments

$11,193

213 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, Pawan Rao of North Syracuse, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,193 across 213 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 89th 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 $643 35
2024 General $507 24
2023 General $3,696 50
2022 General $2,391 34
2021 General $2,813 12
2020 General $362 17
2019 General $779 41

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Pawan Rao were reported at $643. 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 Pawan Rao Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $779 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $362 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $2,813 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $2,391 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $3,696 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $507 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $643 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Retrophin, Inc. $7,126 20 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $550 33 payments
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $399 14 payments
  4. Relypsa, Inc. $388 16 payments
  5. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $371 12 payments
  6. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $280 18 payments
  7. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $269 9 payments
  8. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $223 13 payments
  9. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $216 10 payments
  10. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $196 9 payments
  11. Other $1,174 59 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $5,200 2 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $4,263 193 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,366 5 payments
  4. Education $363 13 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARXIGA $356 12 payments
  2. LUPKYNIS $269 9 payments
  3. BENLYSTA $267 16 payments
  4. Velphoro $223 13 payments
  5. Parsabiv $222 18 payments
  6. TAVNEOS $217 10 payments
  7. Kerendia $216 10 payments
  8. JYNARQUE $209 8 payments
  9. RAYALDEE $196 9 payments
  10. Veltassa $162 7 payments
  11. Other $1,641 86 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 · 88 drugs

Part D claims

4,896

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$1,791,659

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

29.5%

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
Jynarque Tolvaptan Brand 19 $280,293
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 245 $258,926
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 220 $242,337
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 54 $174,125
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 114 $132,099
Retacrit Epoetin Alfa-Epbx Brand 41 $79,941
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 68 $76,502
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 40 $59,568
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 48 $58,961
Benlysta Belimumab Brand 12 $57,176

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 88 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 · 76 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$374,920

Of which drugs: $59,971

Medicare patients

811

Average age 75

Services billed

39,241

355 women, 456 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 57%
Ischemic heart disease 48%
Heart failure 47%
Arthritis 42%
Atrial fibrillation 38%
COPD 28%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, epoetin alfa, (for non-esrd use), 1000 units J0885 Office 38 6,248 $39,254
Injection, ferumoxytol, for treatment of iron deficiency anemia, 1 mg (non-esrd use) Q0138 Office 31 21,165 $5,983
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90653 Office 12 12 $982

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
TAVNEOS
  • Amgen Inc. $90
$90 — —
IBSRELA
  • Ardelyx, Inc. $55
$55 — —
RAYALDEE
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $54
$54 — —
TARPEYO
  • CALLIDITAS THERAPEUTICS US INC. $44
$44 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $25
  • Lilly USA, LLC $14
$40 220 —

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

213 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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