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RENAL PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION

EIN 23-7350948 ROCKVILLE, MD

Revenue 2023
$3,133,746
Expenses 2023
$2,966,850

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
1700 ROCKVILLE PIKE STE 320

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

See Schedule O

Activities or mission (Part I)

Assist in the development of national policy affecting renal physicians and their patients.

  • Health Care Payment - RPA addresses Medicare, Medicaid, and private sector health care financing issues. RPA leaders meet with representatives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Carrier Medical Directors to address concerns about discrepancies in carrier policies, documentation requirements, and apparent trends in payment denials. RPA monitors the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC), as well as congressional health care financing activities, and serves as a resource on kidney-related issues. As an active participant on the American Medical Association's Relative Value Update Committee (RUC), Practice Expense Advisory Committee (PEAC), and CPT Editorial Panel, RPA works to assure that work values for nephrology services are appropriately determined and that CPT codes accurately reflect nephrology clinical practice. Finally, RPA tracts problems related to reimbursement for nephrology services and payment denials experienced by members to determine trends and identify areas where RPA needs to take action.

  • Quality Improvement - RPA is committed to ensuring quality care for patients with kidney disease. The Association works closely with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Forum of ESRD Networks, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop policies and procedures that result in an effective quality assessment and improvement program. RPA develops clinical practice guidelines and physician performance measures to improve the delivery of quality kidney care to patients. The Association coordinates these efforts with other organized medical groups as well as AHRQ and CMS. Patient safety is an important part of the RPA physician-patient equation. Through RPA's efforts in quality and accountability, patient safety has been highlighted as an important program initiative.

  • Research - RPA promotes adequate funding for biomedical research on kidney disease by the National Institutes of Health, specifically the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). RPA supports medical treatment effectiveness and outcomes assessment research relating to kidney disease and advocates funding for this through AHRQ. Also, RPA has been instrumental in garnering support for the creation, implementation, and maintenance of the U.S. renal data system.

  • Liaison and Coalitions - RPA leaders represent the subspecialty of nephrology as members of the house of delegates of the AMA and the Council of Subspecialty Societies of the American College of Physicians. RPA actively participates with other nephrology organizations as a member of Kidney Care Partners.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Keith A Bellovich

    President

    Total calculated
    $12,500
    From this org
    $12,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 0.5 related

  • Gary G Singer

    President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alexander S Liang

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Timothy A Pflederer

    Immediate Past President

    Total calculated
    $6,250
    From this org
    $6,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related

  • Arvind K Garg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brendan T Bowman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charlotte Dixon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Evan R Norfolk

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Harry Giles

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katherine W Kwon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Khalil U Rahman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura I Rankin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nishant B Jalandhara

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rajiv D Poduval

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sallie E Israelit

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Samaya J Anumudu

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah J Swartz

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeffrey A Perlmutter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related

  • Scott Downing

    Legal Counsel

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related

  • Adonia Calhoun Groom

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $246,017
    From this org
    $232,591
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,426
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $232,163
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $428
    Deferred
    $7,247
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,179
    Filer's total
    $246,017

  • Mary P Orgler

    Director of Finance & Administration

    Total calculated
    $131,381
    From this org
    $124,597
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,784
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

  • Robert Blaser

    Director of Public Policy

    Total calculated
    $193,176
    From this org
    $159,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,142
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,163
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $871
    Deferred
    $6,458
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,684
    Filer's total
    $193,176

  • Rose Butts

    Director of Membership & Marketing

    Total calculated
    $151,431
    From this org
    $136,641
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,790
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,171
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $470
    Deferred
    $5,662
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,128
    Filer's total
    $151,431

  • Amy Beckrich

    Director of Projects/Operations

    Total calculated
    $134,949
    From this org
    $124,279
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,670
    Hours/week
    40

  • Desiree Bryant

    Director of Meetings

    Total calculated
    $133,161
    From this org
    $120,833
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,328
    Hours/week
    40

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,133,746
    Expenses
    $2,966,850
    Contributions
    $1,322,433
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,583,467
    Expenses
    $2,732,015
    Contributions
    $1,719,221
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,984,483
    Expenses
    $2,394,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,813,955

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,401,282
    Expenses
    $2,192,544
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,995,233

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,171,306
    Expenses
    $3,151,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,485,862

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,760,575
    Expenses
    $2,668,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,321,309

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,941,277
    Expenses
    $2,716,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,259,725

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,916,999
    Expenses
    $2,700,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,106,298

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,683,590
    Expenses
    $2,567,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,908,871

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,710,000
    Expenses
    $2,761,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,327,873

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,581,185
    Expenses
    $2,681,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,594,464

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,466,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,734,831

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.