RxDoctor Payments Data

Ali Fakhreddine, MD

Gastroenterology · Encinitas, CANPI 1336586908

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,127in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 141 payments — averaging $22.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$430
  • Johnson & Johnson$291
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$248
  • Sanofi$155
  • Pfizer$136
  • plus $749 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,93994%
  • Education$1886%

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

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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.

How this compares

$3,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$116,496
Medicare patients
403
Services billed
1,122

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/Amylase18$38,367
LinzessLinaclotide34$32,431
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates66$4,557
Omeprazole194$2,390
Sucralfate12$1,490
Esomeprazole Magnesium22$1,184
Colestipol Hcl13$871
Pantoprazole Sodium40$765
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg31$556
Famotidine54$437
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl11$148

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$1,118$70,79752 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 55th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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