Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Epogen

Biological Nephrology

NDC 55513-267-10

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General payments

$120,227

465 payments

Research payments

$1,000

2 payments

Through program year 2025, $120,227 in general payments and $1,000 in research payments were reported against Epogen (Nephrology).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $175 4
2024 General $3,687 86
2023 General $7,320 241
2022 General $3,132 89
2021 General $4,514 6
2020 General $68,285 24
2019 General $33,114 15
2019 Research $1,000 2

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $120,227 465 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Anjay Rastogi Nephrology · Los Angeles, CA $97 56% · 1 payment
  2. Dinesh Chatoth Nephrology · Lawrenceville, GA $52 30% · 2 payments
  3. Benjamin Hippen Nephrology · Charlotte, NC $26 15% · 1 payment

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Nephrology Internal Medicine $175 100% · 3 practitioners

Each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. California $97 56% · 1 recipient
  2. Georgia $52 30% · 1 recipient
  3. North Carolina $26 15% · 1 recipient

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 where a state was reported.

Prescribed to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024

Part D claims

7,151

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$3,079,424

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

336

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to EPOGEN, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Epogen Epoetin Alfa Same name 336 7,151 $3,079,424

Matched to this product by name; CMS does not link its files to Open Payments, so a similar name can be a different strength, form or brand. Prescriber counts include only prescribers with 11 or more claims of the drug, because CMS publishes nothing below that. Part D covers drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries at a pharmacy; it does not include drugs given in a clinic or hospital, or patients with other insurance.

Largest prescribers

First 5 of 100 by claims · 2024

Two separate records. Claims come from Medicare and related payments from Open Payments. They are shown in one row because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

The prescribers with the most Part D claims of this drug in 2024
Prescriber Specialty State Claims Drug cost Related payments
Sepehr Golboo Geriatric Medicine CA 176 $51,969 None on record
Kay Kyaw Nephrology CA 156 $94,068 $27
Karla Menjivar Nurse Practitioner CA 131 $54,077 $19
Abraham Ishaaya Pulmonary Disease CA 111 $58,280 None on record
Lathika Raakesh Nephrology CA 83 $46,434 None on record

"No profile" means the prescriber has no Open Payments record here; "None on record" means no payment naming this product in the payment year. Related payments are general payments, and one that names several products is split evenly, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it. The list is the prescribers with the most claims, up to 100 per drug.

See more in the dashboard: 25 with a free account, all 100 with Patron

Given in the clinic

Part B · billing code
Medicare Part B billing codes matched to EPOGEN
Billing code Providers Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, epoetin alfa, (for non-esrd use), 1000 units J0885 806 3,729,400 $23,493,117

Drugs given by a clinician are billed to Medicare Part B, not Part D. The product is tied to a billing code through the NDC on CMS's crosswalk, which was published for a later quarter than the payments, so a code that changed in between can be missed. Providers with fewer than 11 patients for the code are not published. Medicare's payment here is what it paid for the services, to the billing practice.

465 general · 2 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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