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Derek Feussner, MD

Gastroenterology · Charleston, SCNPI 1396004479

Payments from drug & device makers

$34,942in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 821 payments — averaging $42.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$25K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Medtronic$982
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$609
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$489
  • plus $6K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$150%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$20,60059%
  • Food & beverage$14,15441%
  • Education$1730%

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

$34,942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 259 gastroenterology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$165,458
Medicare patients
543
Services billed
1,185

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
RinvoqUpadacitinib15$131,217
LinzessLinaclotide67$77,058
XifaxanRifaximin18$48,600
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase13$45,111
Colesevelam Hcl58$11,256
VoqueznaVonoprazan Fumarate13$8,892
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole27$8,462
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf39$6,345
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates86$5,585
Mesalamine12$4,139
Famotidine179$2,717
Pantoprazole Sodium212$2,643
Lubiprostone11$2,424
Colestipol Hcl25$2,370
Omeprazole157$2,068

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
AbbVieRinvoq, Linzess, Creon$24,746$253,38695 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$1,381$48,60018 claims
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Voquezna$310$8,89213 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab, Suflave$159$7,85251 claims
SandozLansoprazole$29$64320 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 85th percentile of 259 gastroenterology providers in South Carolina.

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