Charles Brooks
Gastroenterology · Allentown, PANPI 1750373155
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 148 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $790 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $13 in 2023.
Across 148 payments — averaging $15.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$501
- Johnson & Johnson$337
- Pfizer$232
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$213
- Gilead$175
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$160
- plus $719 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,338100%
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) | 32 | $501 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $337 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $232 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $213 |
| Gilead | 11 | $175 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $160 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $157 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Merck | 6 | $93 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $61 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Vivus LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$2,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other gastroenterology in Allentown
- Adam PeytonAllentown$985K
- Shashin ShahAllentown$162K
- Michael EngelsAllentown$111K
- Hiral ShahAllentown$76K
- Aaron MendelsonAllentown$75K
- Miguel RegueiroPittsburgh$1.5M
- Shahin RahimianWaynesboro$592K
- Sandra El-HachemPittsburgh$472K
- Harshit KharaDanville$438K
- Kofi ClarkeHershey$426K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.