Barry Frank
Gastroenterology · Tampa, FLNPI 1114032760
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 250 payments — averaging $16.37 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$990
- Gilead$359
- Johnson & Johnson$332
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$323
- Redhill Biopharma Inc.$149
- plus $756 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,094100%
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 | 75 | $1,183 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 65 | $990 |
| Gilead | 17 | $359 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $332 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $323 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 8 | $149 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $109 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $95 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 2 | $36 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 12 | $28 |
| Bayer | 1 | $26 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Mavyret$101
How this compares
$4,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Famotidine | 139 | $1,719 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 128 | $1,364 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 14 | $818 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 29 | $567 |
| Omeprazole | 39 | $510 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Tampa
- Alan WeintraubTampa$4.7M
- Angel RosarioTampa$1.4M
- Howard SchwartzTavernier$38.8M
- Guy NeffSarasota$17.6M
- Syed LateefClermont$6.4M
- Jeffrey SchneiderCoral Springs$6M
- Zaid RanaMiami$5.4M
- David NelsonGainesville$5.2M
- Curtis FreedlandNew Port Richey$4.5M
- Paul HellsternCrystal River$4.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.