RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Dalton, MD

Gastroenterology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1396979936

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,695in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 519 payments — averaging $16.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$663
  • Pfizer$598
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$291
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$258
  • plus $3K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,59199%
  • Education$621%
  • Gifts$430%

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.

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

$8,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,943
Medicare patients
319
Services billed
592

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
XifaxanRifaximin36$122,374
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab13$104,447
OcalivaObeticholic Acid11$102,174
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide35$49,311
Colestipol Hcl78$11,879
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole13$7,755
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf37$5,737
Omeprazole260$5,044
Esomeprazole Magnesium45$4,127
Balsalazide Disodium11$3,062
Sucralfate22$3,011
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates37$2,451
Ursodiol16$2,315
Pantoprazole Sodium135$2,022
Budesonide DrBudesonide16$1,723

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$258$122,37436 claims
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva$172$102,17411 claims
GileadVemlidy$200$49,31135 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$43$5,73737 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 70th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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