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

Tahir Hafeez

Nephrology Baytown, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1770516510 CMS profile 125777

1642 W Baker Road, Baytown, TX 77521

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General payments

$4,000

218 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, Tahir Hafeez of Baytown, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,000 across 218 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 $495 23
2024 General $606 33
2023 General $727 39
2022 General $576 30
2021 General $646 37
2020 General $580 32
2019 General $370 24

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Tahir Hafeez were reported at $495. 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 Tahir Hafeez Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $370 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $580 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $646 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $576 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $727 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $606 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $495 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $650 35 payments
  2. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $587 42 payments
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $440 25 payments
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $316 17 payments
  5. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $290 13 payments
  6. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $265 15 payments
  7. Ardelyx, Inc. $199 8 payments
  8. Relypsa, Inc. $174 8 payments
  9. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $151 6 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $150 8 payments
  11. Other $777 41 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,861 213 payments
  2. Education $139 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Auryxia $602 33 payments
  2. RAYALDEE $484 35 payments
  3. LOKELMA $360 21 payments
  4. Kerendia $316 17 payments
  5. JYNARQUE $275 12 payments
  6. IBSRELA $199 8 payments
  7. ACTHAR $151 6 payments
  8. BENLYSTA $150 8 payments
  9. LUPKYNIS $135 7 payments
  10. Veltassa $133 6 payments
  11. Other $1,245 68 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 · 40 drugs

Part D claims

2,350

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$654,852

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

34.1%

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
Rayaldee Calcifediol Brand 99 $127,143
Xphozah Tenapanor Hcl Brand 39 $116,516
Auryxia Ferric Citrate Brand 50 $96,558
Veltassa Patiromer Calcium Sorbitex Brand 59 $68,113
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 75 $53,315
Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Brand 44 $51,007
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 77 $45,010
Prosol Parenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1 Brand 195 $32,510
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 111 $30,228
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 19 $9,677

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 40 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 · 16 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$166,573

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

242

Average age 73

Services billed

1,635

123 women, 119 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%
Heart failure 62%
Ischemic heart disease 62%
Diabetes 61%
Arthritis 55%
COPD 43%
Atrial fibrillation 42%

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 16 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 $147
$147 99 —
IBSRELA
  • Ardelyx, Inc. $96
$96 — —
LUPKYNIS
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $47
$47 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Lilly USA, LLC $43
$43 19 —
Vafseo
  • AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $38
$38 — —

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

218 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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