RxDoctor Payments Data

Darik Taniguchi, MD

Gastroenterology · Seattle, WANPI 1750359105

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,447in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 290 payments — averaging $32.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$670
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$637
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$487
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$466
  • plus $4K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,16312%
  • Food & beverage$8,21287%
  • Education$721%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$9,447 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 447 gastroenterology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$202,010
Medicare patients
315
Services billed
6,137

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase31$39,888
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates160$10,581
Mesalamine22$8,263
Budesonide DrBudesonide28$4,715
Mesalamine ErMesalamine26$4,561
Omeprazole174$3,127
Pantoprazole Sodium161$2,134
Famotidine117$1,958
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)15$1,300
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine17$1,258
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl37$1,217
Lubiprostone11$1,127
Dicyclomine Hcl33$1,102
Esomeprazole Magnesium24$800
Sucralfate15$619

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
AbbVieCreon$2,146$39,88831 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 80th percentile of 447 gastroenterology providers in Washington.

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