RxDoctor Payments Data

Anthony Thomas, MD

Gastroenterology · Meridian, MSNPI 1639156235

Payments from drug & device makers

$608in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $25.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$198
  • Boston Scientific$124
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$90
  • Merck$64
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$36
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$30
  • plus $66 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$41067%
  • Education$19833%

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

$608 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 127 gastroenterology providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$231,874
Medicare patients
899
Services billed
2,092

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
OcalivaObeticholic Acid14$122,751
ZeposiaOzanimod Hydrochloride12$100,811
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase15$15,255
LinzessLinaclotide19$12,862
Pantoprazole Sodium837$10,113
Mesalamine19$9,017
Mesalamine ErMesalamine21$6,432
Dicyclomine Hcl203$4,802
Ursodiol35$3,044
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)27$2,886
Sucralfate28$2,570
Colestipol Hcl16$2,295
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine21$2,263
Esomeprazole Magnesium36$1,774
Rabeprazole Sodium46$1,694

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
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva$36$122,75114 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$26$28,11634 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 15th percentile of 127 gastroenterology providers in Mississippi.

Other gastroenterology in Meridian

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