Amit Ahuja
Gastroenterology · Alexandria, LANPI 1528061959
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 214 payments — averaging $16.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$658
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$615
- Pfizer$508
- Johnson & Johnson$441
- AbbVie$225
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$141
- plus $944 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,41697%
- Education$1173%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 65 | $658 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 44 | $615 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $508 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 17 | $441 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $225 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 8 | $120 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Merck | 7 | $94 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, 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
$3,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 29 | $287 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Alexandria
- Maury MorrisonAlexandria$15K
- Humberto AguilarShreveport$13.1M
- Gary ReissMarrero$10M
- Bal BhandariBastrop$6.4M
- Gregory GaspardBaton Rouge$4M
- Jonathon ChapmanBaton Rouge$3.6M
- David DulitzLuling$1.9M
- Conar FittonKenner$1.6M
- Vivek HuilgolNew Orleans$1.6M
- Georges CatinisMetairie$1.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.