Filitsa Bender is a Nephrology physician affiliated with University of Pittsburgh. OpenAlex indexes 53 publications with 1,382 citations (h-index 20).
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
3459 5th Ave
Suite 501
Pittsburgh, PA 152133236
Telephone
412-647-2561Registry record last updated 6 Apr 2021.
Industry payments
2 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Vantive US Healthcare LLCProgram year20252 payments
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.Program year20231 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Cardiovascular
62.6%Calcium channel blocker13.5%Amlodipine Besylate100%Part D≥16 patientsLoop diuretic12.1%Furosemide77%Bumetanide23%Part D<11 patients+ 5 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
16.7%SGLT2 inhibitor8.9%Farxiga100%Part D<11 patientsVitamin D3 Analog4.8%Calcitriol100%Part D<11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Musculoskeletal
6.2%Xanthine oxidase inhibitor6.2%Allopurinol100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- The chromatin landscape of healthy and injured cell types in the human kidney
Nature Communications
2024 - Precision Medicine in Nephrology: An Integrative Framework of Multidimensional Data in the Kidney Precision Medicine Project
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
2023 - A user-friendly tool for cloud-based whole slide image segmentation with examples from renal histopathology
Communications Medicine
2022 - A Rare Case of Peritonitis Associated With Sevelamer-Induced Colitis in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
2022
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