RxDoctor Payments Data

Cole Thomson

Gastroenterology · Houston, TXNPI 1598773459

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,610in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 96 payments — averaging $16.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$695
  • Gilead$186
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$123
  • Pfizer$104
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$66
  • Sanofi$55
  • plus $382 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,602100%
  • Education$80%

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

$1,610 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$159,327
Medicare patients
493
Services billed
2,238

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
LinzessLinaclotide50$30,803
Mesalamine29$14,473
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf84$13,488
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase13$8,859
Pantoprazole Sodium689$8,061
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole14$5,788
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)66$5,390
Mesalamine ErMesalamine18$4,591
Dicyclomine Hcl135$4,036
Omeprazole166$2,405
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine17$1,928
Chlordiazepoxide-ClidiniumChlordiazepoxide/Clidinium Br18$1,898
Sucralfate61$1,789
Lubiprostone18$1,741
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine19$722

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$695$39,66263 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 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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