David Welch
Gastroenterology · Johnson City, TNNPI 1871597278
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 236 payments — averaging $12.60 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$953
- AbbVie$698
- Pfizer$309
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$302
- Johnson & Johnson$181
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$150
- plus $381 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,961100%
- Education$130%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 79 | $953 |
| AbbVie | 50 | $698 |
| Pfizer | 34 | $309 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 22 | $302 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $181 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 12 | $150 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Gilead | 2 | $29 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $13 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,975 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.
Other gastroenterology in Johnson City
- Chakradhar ReddyJohnson City$884K
- Ziad YounesGermantown$15.6M
- Robert HerringNashville$3.2M
- Dawn Borromeo BeaulieuNashville$2.1M
- David SchwartzNashville$1.4M
- Kevin FinneganHermitage$1.4M
- Baldeep PablaNashville$1.2M
- Sara HorstNashville$1.2M
- Michael PoraykoNashville$870K
- Saras SharmaNashville$870K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.