RxDoctor Payments Data

Derek Holcombe, MD

Gastroenterology · Alexander City, ALNPI 1841203833

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,485in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $17.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$609
  • Johnson & Johnson$406
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$293
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$270
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$245
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$122
  • plus $541 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,485100%

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

$2,485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$279,137
Medicare patients
647
Services billed
1,729

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
LinzessLinaclotide220$161,215
IbsrelaTenapanor Hcl41$77,808
TrulancePlecanatide36$26,884
Esomeprazole Magnesium359$23,309
Mesalamine15$13,092
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole55$10,388
Famotidine580$9,750
Colestipol Hcl86$6,703
Pantoprazole Sodium495$5,930
Rabeprazole Sodium80$5,569
Sucralfate138$4,727
Omeprazole259$4,477
Mesalamine ErMesalamine29$3,054
Sulfasalazine74$2,200
Lactulose14$1,870

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$609$161,215220 claims
Ardelyx, Inc.Ibsrela$293$77,80841 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$245$26,88436 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 35th percentile of 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.

Other gastroenterology in Alexander City

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