Alan Karp
Gastroenterology · El Paso, TXNPI 1982696324
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 345 payments — averaging $17.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$932
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$721
- Johnson & Johnson$538
- Pfizer$453
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$338
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,03699%
- Education$521%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 66 | $1,292 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 57 | $932 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 30 | $721 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | $538 |
| Pfizer | 44 | $453 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 18 | $338 |
| Gilead | 16 | $327 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 18 | $260 |
| Merck | 17 | $238 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $180 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $100 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $95 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $75 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $64 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $31 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $21 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$6,088 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Famotidine | 24 | $792 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $371 |
| Omeprazole | 21 | $299 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in El Paso
- Emmanuel GorospeEl Paso$2.3M
- Eric LawitzSan Antonio$59.5M
- George DuvallTyler$17.5M
- John FordtranDallas$9.9M
- Timothy RitterSouthlake$7.7M
- Parvez MantryDallas$6.4M
- Mazen NoureddinHouston$6.1M
- Nadege GunnWaco$5.7M
- Michael BrownDallas$5.5M
- James MaherHouston$5.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.