RxDoctor Payments Data

Chukwuemeka Ezeoke, MD

Gastroenterology · Abilene, TXNPI 1548522675

Payments from drug & device makers

$874in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $17.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$233
  • Gilead$137
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$70
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$61
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$53
  • plus $263 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$83095%
  • Education$445%

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

$874 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$102,011
Medicare patients
278
Services billed
830

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
StelaraUstekinumab22$473,483
XifaxanRifaximin40$129,485
IbsrelaTenapanor Hcl29$54,178
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase15$27,213
LinzessLinaclotide31$16,564
TrulancePlecanatide20$11,208
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf65$10,715
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate19$8,048
ErythromycinErythromycin Base27$6,564
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole32$6,457
Colestipol Hcl89$6,149
Budesonide DrBudesonide54$6,110
Mesalamine29$4,889
Pantoprazole Sodium320$3,370
Sucralfate89$2,796

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
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$35$473,48322 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan, Trulance$70$140,69360 claims
Ardelyx, Inc.Ibsrela$46$54,17829 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$233$43,77746 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$23$10,71565 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 20th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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