Dawn Torres, MD
Gastroenterology · Bethesda, MDNPI 1063443968
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Gilead. That places this record below the midpoint for gastroenterology clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $2,763.
Across 1 payment — averaging $121.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$122
Across 166 payments — averaging $5982.73 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$766K
- Intercept Pharma Europe Ltd.$99K
- Gilead$96K
- Genentech, Inc.$32K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$122100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 1 | $122 |
How this compares
$122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 455 gastroenterology providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 230 | $5,229 |
| Lubiprostone | 27 | $3,929 |
| Peg3350-Sod Sul-Nacl-Kcl-Asb-CPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C | 49 | $3,073 |
| Budesonide DrBudesonide | 16 | $2,043 |
| Mesalamine | 18 | $1,711 |
| Lactulose | 23 | $1,515 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 92 | $1,137 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 38 | $960 |
| Sucralfate | 19 | $866 |
| Famotidine | 54 | $429 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 13 | $398 |
| Entecavir | 15 | $398 |
| Azathioprine | 14 | $309 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 22 | $224 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Bethesda
- Maria SjogrenBethesda$75K
- John BassettBethesda$61K
- Reezwana ChowdhuryBethesda$40K
- Samuel MuenchBethesda$34K
- Eric PollackBethesda$15K
- Apurva ModiRockville$1.1M
- Sergey KantsevoyBaltimore$1.1M
- Anurag MaheshwariBaltimore$803K
- Aline Charabaty PishvaianBaltimore$631K
- Zachary BormanChevy Chase$520K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.