RxDoctor Payments Data

Abhinav Koul, MD

Gastroenterology · Sacramento, CANPI 1700145661

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,064in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 110 payments — averaging $64.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Ovesco Endoscopy USA, Inc.$1K
  • AbbVie$714
  • Johnson & Johnson$629
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$442
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$257
  • plus $840 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,38648%
  • Food & beverage$3,50450%
  • Education$1742%

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$7,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$195,241
Medicare patients
484
Services billed
1,405

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase34$73,664
XifaxanRifaximin13$37,832
LinzessLinaclotide22$13,734
Ursodiol45$3,007
Pantoprazole Sodium212$2,527
Budesonide EcBudesonide16$2,093
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates18$1,282
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl71$914
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl43$668
Omeprazole57$618
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg19$443
Sucralfate15$190
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl11$150
Carvedilol26$93
Ciprofloxacin Hcl23$67

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$714$87,39756 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$84$37,83213 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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