RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Lawrence, MD

Gastroenterology · Charleston, SCNPI 1609984566

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,665in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $17.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$333
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$249
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$134
  • Sandoz$129
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$122
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$106
  • plus $592 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,64199%
  • Education$241%

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.

How this compares

$1,665 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 259 gastroenterology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$171,320
Medicare patients
693
Services billed
1,228

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab20$171,362
LinzessLinaclotide81$73,034
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase24$64,083
XifaxanRifaximin11$32,571
TrulancePlecanatide18$20,628
MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate12$17,601
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates211$13,749
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate20$10,004
Colesevelam Hcl36$7,685
Lubiprostone23$5,748
Sucralfate58$5,183
Esomeprazole Magnesium98$5,072
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf28$4,555
Mesalamine13$3,149
Budesonide EcBudesonide13$2,454

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
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$333$137,117105 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan, Trulance$249$53,19929 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Motegrity$134$17,60112 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$50$4,55528 claims
SandozLansoprazole$129$1,50248 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 30th percentile of 259 gastroenterology providers in South Carolina.

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