Brian Longendyke
Gastroenterology · Ft Myers, FLNPI 1811979511
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 175 payments — averaging $17.68 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$575
- Gilead$440
- Johnson & Johnson$168
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$165
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$105
- plus $439 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,07099%
- Education$231%
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(2 entities) | 59 | $1,202 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 35 | $575 |
| Gilead | 27 | $440 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $168 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 9 | $165 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $53 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $42 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $36 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 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.
- Epclusa$118
How this compares
$3,093 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.
Other gastroenterology in Ft Myers
- Howard SchwartzTavernier$38.8M
- Guy NeffSarasota$17.6M
- Syed LateefClermont$6.4M
- Jeffrey SchneiderCoral Springs$6M
- Zaid RanaMiami$5.4M
- David NelsonGainesville$5.2M
- Alan WeintraubTampa$4.7M
- Curtis FreedlandNew Port Richey$4.5M
- Paul HellsternCrystal River$4.5M
- Henry LevineOrlando$3.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.