Choon Kim
Gastroenterology · Westminster, MDNPI 1245398874
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 315 payments — averaging $15.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$430
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$419
- Johnson & Johnson$259
- Gilead$243
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$239
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,934100%
- Education$100%
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) | 136 | $2,011 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 24 | $430 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 34 | $419 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $259 |
| Gilead | 14 | $243 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $239 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $222 |
| Merck | 12 | $211 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $122 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $105 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $87 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $27 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $21 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$4,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 455 gastroenterology providers in Maryland.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Famotidine | 130 | $2,762 |
| Omeprazole | 91 | $1,562 |
| Sulfasalazine | 26 | $1,133 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 14 | $925 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 38 | $920 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 13 | $388 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Westminster
- Kenolisa OnwuemeBaltimore$4.5M
- Paul ThuluvathBaltimore$3.6M
- Apurva ModiRockville$3.3M
- Louis KormanChevy Chase$1.9M
- Marcia CantoBaltimore$1.6M
- Michael EpsteinAnnapolis$1.4M
- Rudrajit RaiColumbia$1.4M
- Natarajan RavendhranCatonsville$1.2M
- Raymond CrossBaltimore$1.2M
- Erica CohenChevy Chase$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.