RxDoctor Payments Data

Diego Kuperschmit, MD

Gastroenterology · Arlington, VANPI 1457450280

Payments from drug & device makers

$25,885in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 916 payments — averaging $28.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$8K
  • AbbVie$5K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$1K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$934
  • plus $8K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,50017%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7083%
  • Travel & lodging$2,0748%
  • Food & beverage$18,30971%
  • Education$2941%

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.

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

$25,885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$251,290
Medicare patients
798
Services billed
1,956

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
StelaraUstekinumab11$305,098
LinzessLinaclotide37$28,875
Mesalamine21$15,055
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates177$10,678
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole18$5,501
Omeprazole174$3,448
Budesonide EcBudesonide16$2,213
Pantoprazole Sodium135$2,034
Lansoprazole22$1,805
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)25$1,735
Sucralfate13$1,587
Esomeprazole Magnesium14$925
Budesonide DrBudesonide16$670
Famotidine49$568
Dicyclomine Hcl15$284

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
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$1,854$305,09811 claims
AbbVieLinzess$5,049$28,87537 claims
SandozLansoprazole$60$1,80522 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 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

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