Bhupesh Pokhrel, MD
Gastroenterology · San Diego, CANPI 1649432790
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $191.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$2K
- Ovesco Endoscopy USA, Inc.$755
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$547
- Medtronic$411
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$291
- plus $650 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,00045%
- Travel & lodging$3,99936%
- Food & beverage$2,08219%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 22 | $6,617 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 15 | $1,810 |
| Ovesco Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $755 |
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 2 | $547 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $411 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 3 | $291 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $248 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $161 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $115 |
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.
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$5,000
- Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$1,670
- Single Use Electrosurgical Hemostatic Forceps$1,559
- ORISE$791
- Cook Medical Hemostasis$532
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$386
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$193
- Creon$125
- EXALT Model D$121
- CONMED BILIARY$116
- Cook Medical Zilver$115
- DISPOSABLE TRIPLE LUMEN SPHINCTEROTOME$110
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U200H$110
- EndoClot PHS$110
- Resolution 360 ULTRA Clip$107
How this compares
$11,081 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.
Medicare billing
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.
Other gastroenterology in San Diego
- Brigid BolandSan Diego$2.4M
- William SandbornSan Diego$2.2M
- Naveen GaraSan Diego$1.5M
- Michael BennettSan Diego$1.5M
- Taddese DestaSan Diego$1.4M
- Hyun KimSan Diego$1.3M
- Vijayalak PrathaSan Diego$1.2M
- David KunkelSan Diego$679K
- Peter WinkleCypress$116.7M
- Manuchehr DaraniSanta Ana$17.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.