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

Sejal Sarolia

Nephrology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1609050970 CMS profile 117648

6560 Fannin St Ste 1730, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$3,944

193 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, Sejal Sarolia of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,944 across 193 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 76th 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 $860 40
2024 General $754 33
2023 General $463 22
2022 General $758 33
2021 General $354 18
2020 General $176 10
2019 General $579 37

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Sejal Sarolia were reported at $860. 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 Sejal Sarolia Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $579 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $176 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $354 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $758 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $463 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $754 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $860 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $724 34 payments
  2. Relypsa, Inc. $597 35 payments
  3. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $471 27 payments
  4. Retrophin, Inc. $308 15 payments
  5. Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $273 14 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $271 10 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $256 12 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $219 7 payments
  9. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $210 9 payments
  10. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $177 9 payments
  11. Other $438 21 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,803 189 payments
  2. Education $141 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JYNARQUE Nephrology $593 27 payments
  2. RAYALDEE $407 23 payments
  3. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $320 14 payments
  4. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $243 20 payments
  5. Auryxia $185 8 payments
  6. Velphoro $177 9 payments
  7. TARPEYO $163 9 payments
  8. JYNARQUE Nephrology $153 8 payments
  9. TAVNEOS $133 6 payments
  10. Vafseo $123 5 payments
  11. Other $1,221 53 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 · 42 drugs

Part D claims

1,740

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$301,456

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

26.9%

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
Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Brand 76 $57,173
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 53 $56,470
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 19 $55,750
Rayaldee Calcifediol Brand 27 $32,508
Procrit Epoetin Alfa Brand 27 $27,257
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 100 $22,037
Epogen Epoetin Alfa Brand 13 $6,843
Calcium Acetate Generic 73 $5,943
Retacrit Epoetin Alfa-Epbx Brand 12 $4,799
Nifedipine Er Nifedipine Brand 163 $4,701

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 42 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 · 23 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$149,786

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

220

Average age 72

Services billed

1,925

120 women, 100 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 64%
Ischemic heart disease 61%
Heart failure 56%
Arthritis 55%
Atrial fibrillation 36%
COPD 27%

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 12 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
RAYALDEE
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $130
$130 27 —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $101
$101 — —
TARPEYO
  • CALLIDITAS THERAPEUTICS US INC. $82
$82 — —
TAVNEOS
  • Amgen Inc. $73
$73 — —
Vafseo
  • AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $50
$50 — —

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

193 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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