RxDoctor Payments Data

David Thomas, MD

Gastroenterology · Indianapolis, INNPI 1104860329

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,938in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $15.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$528
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$518
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$246
  • Johnson & Johnson$111
  • Gilead$85
  • Shire North American Group Inc$83
  • plus $367 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,86496%
  • Gifts$734%

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

$1,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$63,234
Medicare patients
335
Services billed
605

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
LinzessLinaclotide24$24,246
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates87$5,115
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl212$2,995
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)18$2,449
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf13$2,156
Colestipol Hcl20$1,719
Dicyclomine Hcl64$1,300
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl71$1,202
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg25$539
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron28$514
Famotidine37$512
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole13$486
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine14$418
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine12$415
Lansoprazole17$400

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$528$24,24624 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$73$2,15613 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 45th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.

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