RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Shaver, MD

Gastroenterology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1407800378

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,379in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 275 payments — averaging $15.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$877
  • AbbVie$674
  • Pfizer$507
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$417
  • Celltrion USA Inc.$71
  • plus $345 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,362100%
  • Education$170%

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

$4,379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$351,865
Medicare patients
396
Services billed
9,584

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) PenAdalimumab11$88,637
LinzessLinaclotide106$79,079
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase28$74,740
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase23$39,693
XifaxanRifaximin13$31,318
TrulancePlecanatide17$12,445
PlenvuPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C59$7,990
Esomeprazole Magnesium106$7,282
Ursodiol39$6,876
Mesalamine ErMesalamine26$5,301
Lubiprostone14$4,351
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole14$3,999
Pantoprazole Sodium372$3,903
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf24$3,841
Balsalazide Disodium23$2,437

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$674$118,772129 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan, Trulance, Plenvu$1,487$51,75289 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 50th percentile of 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.

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